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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS 

OF  THE 

I 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC 

CONVENTION, 

HELD   IN   CHICAGO,  ILL.,  JUNE    21sT,  22ND  AND   23RD, 

1892. 


CONTAINING,    ALSO,    THE 

PRELIMINARY    PROCEEDINGS    OF    THE    NATIONAL    DEMOCRATIC 
COMMITTEE  AND   THE  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS, 

WITH   AN   APPENDIX   CONTAINING  THE 

PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  NOTIFICATION,  ORGANIZA- 
TION OF  THE  NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  COMMITTEE  OF  1892, 
AND   THE   LETTERS   OF   ACCEPTANCE    OF    GROVER 
CLEVELAND  AND  ADLAI  E.  STEVENSON. 


REPORTED   FOR   THE   CONVENTION    BY 

EDWARD  B.  DICKINSON, 

OFFICIAL  STHNOGRAPHER. 


CHICAGO: 

CAMERON,  AMBERG  &  Co.,  71-73  LAKE  STREET. 
1892. 


JK 

2.31  3 


INDEX. 


Addresses  of — 

Abbett,  (N.  J.,)  Nominating  Cleveland 103 

Bragg,  (Wisconsin,)  Nominating  Mitchell  for  Vice-President 171 

Cockran,  (New  York,)  On  situation  in  New  York  State 145 

Collins,  (Mass.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 130 

Collins,  (Mass.,)  As  to  future  National  Democratic  Conventions 180 

Daniel,  (Va.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Hill 136 

DeWitt,  (N.  Y.,)  Nominating  Hill 108 

Duncombe,  (Iowa,)  Nominating  Horace  Boies 121 

Elias,  (N.  C.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Stevenson 169 

English,  (Indiana,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 120 

Fellows,  (N.  Y. , )  Seconding  nomination  of  Hill 114 

Fenelon,  (Kan.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 126 

Goode,  (Va.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 142 

Green,  ( Ills. , )  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 119 

Hensel,  (Penn.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 133 

Kernan,  (La.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Boies 129 

Lamb,  (Ind.,)  Nominating  Gray 161 

McKenzie,  (Ky.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 127 

Neal,  (Ohio,)  Tariff  amendment 82 

Ochs,  (Tenn.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 135 

Patterson,  (Col.,)  On  Coinage  Amendment 93 

Phelps,  (Missouri,)  Presenting  zinc  gavel 68 

Ross,  (D.  C.,)  Welcome  to  National  Committee  3 

Rhea,  (Ky.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Stevenson 166 

Scott,  ( Kansas,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Gray 165 

Vilas,  (Wis.,)  Tariff  Amendment 86 

Uhl,  (Mich.,)  Nominating  Morse  for  Vice-President 167 

Wallace,  (Missouri,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 131 

Watterson,  (Ky.,)  Tariff  Amendment. 83 

Watterson,  (Ky.,)  Seconding  nomination  of  Boies 129 

White,  (Cal.,)To  Stevenson 226 

Wilson,  (W.  Va.,)  Permanent  Chairman 62 

Wilson,  (W.  Va..)  On  Notification  of  Cleveland 220 

Worthington,  (Ills.,)  Nominating  Stevenson  for  Vice-President 163 

Abbett,  Leon,  Address  of,  nominating  Cleveland 102 

Alaska  Memorial  to  Convention 39 

Lists  of — 

Assistant  Reading  Clerks 60 

Assistant  Secretaries 60 

Assistant  Sergean ts-at- Arms 60 

Ballot- 
On  Adoption  of  Tariff  Amendment  to  Platform 92 

For  nominees  for  Presidency 157 

For  nominees  for  Vice-Presidency 1 76 

(Revised)  For  nominees  for  Vice-Presidency 178 


550321 


vi  INDEX. 

Bell,  Nicholas  M. ,  Chief  Reading  Clerk 26-60 

Bell,  Nicholas  M.,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 181-218 

Bell,  Nicholas  M.,  Placed  on  Notification  Committee  as  Secretary 181 

Elaine,  James  G.,  Resolution  of  sympathy  for 35-217 

Boies,  Horace,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Presidency 121 

Bragg,  EdwardS.,  Address  nominating  John  L.  Mitchell  for  Vice-Presidency,  171 

Brice,  Calvin  S.,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 186-194 

Bright,  Richard  J.,  Sergeant-at-Arms 26-60 

Bright,  Richard  J.,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 186 

Broadwater,  C.  A.,  Resolution  on  death  of 201 

Call  for  National  Democratic  Convention  of  1892 22 

Canda,  Chas.  J.,  Resolution  of  thanks 186-204 

Canda,  Ferdinand  E.,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 186 

Chicago  selected  as  the  place  for  holding  Convention 21 

Cleveland,  Grover,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Presidency 102 

Cleveland,  Grover,  Unanimously  nominated  for  the  Presidency  by  the   Con- 
vention    158 

Cleveland,  Grover,  Official  notification  of  nomination 218 

Cleveland,  Grover,  Address  of,  in  reply  to  Notification  Committee 223 

Cleveland,  Grover,  Letter  of  Acceptance  of 234 

Cockran,  Bourke,  Address  of,  on  the  situation  in  New  York  State    145 

Collins,  Patrick  A.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 130 

Collins,  Patrick,  Address  of,  on  future  Democratic  Conventions 179 

Committees — 

Of  Arrangements,  Meeting  of xi 

To  Escort  Permanent  Chairman   62 

On  Credentials,  Appointment  of 31 

On  Credentials,  Report  of 45 

On  Notification,  Appointment  of 70 

On  Notification,  Proceedings  of 214 

On  Notification,  Address  of,  to  Grover  Cleveland 218 

On  Notification,  Address  of,  to  Adlai  E.  Stevenson 227 

On  Permanent  Organization,  Appointment  of. 32 

On  Permanent  Organization,  Report  of 59 

On  Resolutions,  Appointment  of 33 

On  Resolutions,  Report  of 76 

On  Rules,  Appointment  of 32 

On  Rules,  Report  of 66 

Of  Seven,  Appointment  of 12 

Convention — 

First  Day 25 

Second  Day  (morning  session) 38 

Second  Day  (evening  session)    74 

Third  Day 160 

Official  List  of  Delegates  to 46 

Rules  to  govern 29 

Daniel,  John  W.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Hill 136 

Delegates,  Official  list  of 46 

DeWitt,  William  H. ,  Address  of,  nominating  Hill 108 

Dickinson,  Edward  B.,  Appointed  Official  Stenographer 26-60 

Dickinson,  Edward  B.,  Resolutions  of  thanks  to 186-204 

Dickson,  William,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 22 

Duncombe,  John  F.,  Address  of,  nominating  Boies 121 

Elias,  Kope,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Stevenson 169 

English,  William  H.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland  120 

Fellows,  John  R.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Hill 114 

Fenelon,  Thomas  D.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 126 

Gavel,  Presentation  of 68 

Green,  A-  W.,  Address  of,  seconding  Nomination  of  Cleveland 119 

Goode,  John,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 142 


INDEX.  vii 

Green,  Rev.  Thomas  E.,  Prayer  of 74-160 

Gray,  Isaac  P. ,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Vice-Presidency 161 

Henry,  Rev.  Alfred  H.,  Prayer  of 38 

Hopkins,  John  P.,  Chief  Assistant  Sergeant-at-Arms 60 

Hill,  David  B.,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Presidency 108 

Hensel,  W.  U.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 133 

Harrity,  Wm.  F.,  Elected  chairman  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee. .  200 

Kernan,  Thos.  J.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Boies 129 

Lamb,  John  E.,  Address  of,  nominating  Isaac  P.  Gray 161 

Letter  of  Acceptance  of  Grover  Cleveland 234 

Letter  of  Acceptance  of  Adlai  E.  Stevenson , 241 

McHenry,  Henry  D. ,  Resolution  on  death  of 15 

McKenzie,  James  A.,  Address  of,  secondi»g  nomination  of  Cleveland 127 

Mitchell,  John  L.,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Vice-Presidency 171 

Morse,  Allan  B.,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Vice- Presidency 167 

Neal,  Lawrence  T.,  Address  of,  on  Tariff  Amendment  to  Platform 82 

National  Democratic  Committee,  1888,  Preliminary  Proceedings  of 3 

National  Democratic  Committee,  1892,  Appointment  of 69 

National  Democratic  Committee,  1892,  Organization  of 185 

National  Democratic  Committee,  1892,  List,  and  officers  of  .. .  . 212 

National  Democratic  Committee,  1892,  Executive  and  Campaign  Committees  of,  213 

New  York  City  Local  Committee,  Proceedings  of 231 

Ochs,  George  W.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 135 

Oelrichs,  Herman,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 23 

Owens,  William  C. ,  Temporary  Chairman 26 

Owens,  William  C.,  Address  of 27 

Owens,  William  C. ,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 66 

Palmer,  John  M. ,  Address  of 42 

Patterson,  Thomas  M.,  Address  of,  on  Coinage  Amendment 93 

Phelps,  William  H.,  Address  of,  presenting  gavel 68 

Platform,  The 93 

Prayers...  , 25-38-74-160 

Presidency,  Ballot  for 157 

Resolutions  in  regard  to — 

Arrangements  for  future  conventions  (Collins,  Mass.) 180 

Bell,  Placed  on  Notification  Committee  (Chipley,  Fla.) 181 

Elaine  (Cable,  111.) 35 

Blaine  (Cullop,  Ind.) 217 

Chairman  National  Democratic  Committee  (Honey,  R.  I.) 179 

Convention  of  1896,  authority  to  call  (Brice,  Ohio) 179 

Death  of  C.  A.  Broadwater  (Sheerin,  Ind.) 201 

Death  of  Henry  D.  McHenry  (Watterson,  Ky. ) 15 

Death  of  Wm.  L.  Scott  (Watterson.  Ky.)   15 

Platform  engrossed  for  Mr.  Wilson  (Rhodes,  Ala.)    218 

Printing  of  Official  Proceedings  (Watterson,  Ky. ) 181 

Wilson,  W.  L.,  Placed  on  Notification  Committee  (Mack,  N.  Y.)    179 

Resolutions  of  thanks  to — 

Nicholas  M.  Bell .., 181-218 

Calvin  S .  Brice 1 86-194 

Richard  J.  Bright    186 

Charles  J.  Canda 186-204 

Ferdinand  E.  Canda 186 

Chicago  Committees 22-186 

Edward  B.  Dickinson 186-204 

William  Dickson .    22 

Herman  Oelrichs 23 

William  C.  Owens 66 

President  and  Officers  of  the  Convention 181 

Secretaries  of  Convention 181 

S.  P.  Sheerin 186 

W.L.Wilson ..181-218 


viii  INDEX. 

Rhea,  John  S.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Stevenson 166 

Roosevelt,  Robert  B.,  Elected  Treasurer  National  Democratic  Committee. . . .  201 

Rouse,  Rev.  John,  Prayer 25 

Rules  of  Convention  ...   . 29 

Rules  and  Order  of  Business 67 

Scott,  Tully,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Gray 165 

Scott,  William  L. ,  Resolution  on  death  of 15 

Secretaries  of  Convention,  List  of 61 

Sergeant-at- Arms,  Appointment  of 26 

Sheerin,  S.  P.,  Temporary  and  Permanent  Secretary. ...    26-59 

Sheerin,  S.  P.,  Elected  Secretary  National  Democratic  Committee 201 

Stenographer,  Appointment  of 26 

Stevenson,  Adlai  E.,  Placed  in  nomination  for  Vice-President 163 

Stevenson,  Adlai  E.,  Unanimously  nominated  Tor  Vice-President  by  the  Con- 
vention   175 

Stevenson,  Adlai  E.,  Official  notification  of  nomination 227 

Stevenson,  Adlai  E.,  Address  in  reply  to  Notification  Committee 228 

Stevenson,  Adlai  E.,  Letter  of  Acceptance  of 241 

Swett,  Edward  C  ,  Address  on  Elaine  resolution 35 

Temporary  Organization 26 

Uhl,  Edwin  F.,  Address  of,  nominating  Allan  B.  Morse 167 

Vice-Presidency,  Ballots  for 176-178 

Vice  Presidents  of  Convention,  List  of - 61 

Vilas,  William  F.,  Address  of,  on  Platform  Amendments 86 

Voorhees,  D.  W.,  Letter  of,  read  to  Convention 121 

Wallace,  William  H.,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Cleveland 131 

Watterson,  Henry,  Address  on  Tariff  Amendment 83 

Watterson,  Henry,  Address  of,  seconding  nomination  of  Boies 129 

White,  Stephen  M.,  Address  of,  to  Stevenson 226 

Wilson,  William  L. ,  Permanent  Chairman 59 

Wilson,  William  L.,  Address  of,  as  Permanent  Chairman 62 

Wilson,  William  L.,  Address  of,  notifying  Cleveland  of  nomination 220 

Wilson,  William  L.,  Resolution  of  thanks  to 218 

Worthington,  N.  E.,  Address  of,  nominating  Stevenson 163 

World's  Columbian  Exposition,  Invitation  of 36 


COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS 

FOR  THE 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  C°NVENTION 


CHICAGO,  ILL.,  JUNE  21ST,  1892. 


On  the  23d  day  of  January,  1892,  there  met  at  the  Palmer  House, 
in  the  city  of  Chicago,  Judge  John  P.  Altgeld,  John  A.  King,  Walter 
S.  Bogle,  F.  H.  Winston,  De  Witt  C.  Cregier,  W.  C.  Goudy,  A.  F. 
Seeberger,  Charles  Kern,  Lambert  Tree,  Gen.  John  C.  Black  and 
A.  T.  Ewing,  of  Chicago,  and  Arthur  Sewall,  S.  P.  Sheerin,  C.  S. 
Thomas  and  J.  J.  Richardson,  of  the  National  Committee. 

Judge  John  P.  Altgeld  was  called  upon  to  preside,  A.  T.  Ewing 
acting  as  temporary  Secretary.  • 

These  gentlemen  met  for  the  purpose  of  making  preliminary 
arrangements  for  the  National  Democratic  Convention,  which  was 
to  be  held  in  the  city  of  Chicago  on  the  2 1st  day  of  June,  1892,  that 
city  having  been  selected  as  the  place  for  holding  the  Convention, 
without  any  solicitation  on  the  part  of  its  citizens. 

It  was  agreed  that  the  agreements  made  by  the  citizens  of  Chi- 
cago with  the  National  Committee  of  1884  should  be  adopted. 
They  were  to  furnish  rooms  for  the  National  Committee,  traveling 
expenses  of  Committee  to  and  from  Chicago,  hotel  expenses  of  Com- 
mitteemen  and  their  wives  while  in  Chicago,  room  for  Convention, 
with  committee  rooms,  music,  etc.,  and  carriage  hire  of  the  Sub- 
Committee  of  the  National  Committee  while  making  preparations. 

The  chairman  appointed  a  committee  of  seven,  consisting  of 
De  Witt  C.  Cregier,  W.  C.  Goudy,  Frederick  H.  Winston,  A.  F. 
Seeberger,  Lambert  Tree,  Charles  Kern  and  Walter  S.  Bogle,  for 
the  purpose  of  making  up  a  list  of  the  names  of  Democrats  to  be 
called  together  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  a  permanent  organiza- 
tion to  look  after  preparations  for  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention. 


xii  CITIZENS'  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS. 

At  a  later  meeting,  held  at  the  Iroquois  Club,  James  C.  Strain 
was  added  to  the  committee  and  appointed  permanent  Secretary, 
and  the  following  named  persons,  in  addition  to  those  above  men- 
tioned, were  selected  as  a  Committee  of  Arrangements:  John  P. 
Hopkins,  Joseph  Donnersberger,  Peter  Kiolbassa,  Samuel  B.  Chase, 
Adolph  Kraus,  Washington  Hesing,  W.  D.  Kerfoot,  Thomas  Gahan 
and  John  A.  King. 

The  following  Committees  on  Finance  and  Buildings  were  ap- 
pointed : 

COMMITTEE    ON    FINANCE. 

Chairman,  F.  H.  WINSTON.  Secretary,  JAMES  C.  STRAIX. 

Treasurer,  A.  F.  SEEBERGER. 

POTTER  PALMER,  J.  IRVING  PEARCE, 

ERSKINE  M.  PHELPS,  REDMOND  PRINDIVILLE, 

JOHN  P.  ALTGELD,  WILLIAM  McCov, 

DE  WITT  C.  CREGIER,  J.  W.  RICHARDS, 

CHARLES  KERN,  F.  S.  WINSTON, 

W.  D.  KERFOOT,  CHARLES  H.  SCHWAB, 

JOHN  H.  PRENTISS,  JOHN  W.  LANEHART, 

WILLIAM  C.  SEIPP,  M.  F.  GALLAGHER, 

CHARLES  H.  WACKER,  JAMES  WOODS, 

JOHN  CUDAHY,  CARTER  H.  HARRISON, 

PETER  KIOLBASSA,  L.  Z.  LEITER, 

DANIEL  CORKERY,  JESSE  SHERWOOD, 

JOHN  A.  KING,  GEORGE  HOFMANN,  JR., 

LEO  AUSTRIAN. 

COMMITTEE  ON  BUILDINGS. 

F.  H.  WINSTON,  JOHN  P.  HOPKINS, 

JOSEPH  DONNERSBERGER,  WASHINGTON  HESING, 

HARRY  WILKINSON. 

The  National  Committee  having  decided  that  it  required  a  hall 
to  seat  about  fifteen  thousand  persons,  after  canvassing  the  several 
large  buildings  in  the  city,  together  with  the  Exposition  Building 
and  Auditorium,  the  local  committee,  in  order  to  meet  the  require- 
ments of  the  National  Committee,  decided  upon  building  a  conven- 
tion hall  that  would  seat  twenty  thousand  people  ;  depending  upon 
the  generosity  of  the  citizens  of  Chicago,  backed  up  by  their  usual 
local  pride,  to  furnish  them  with  the  means  of  building  the  hall. 


CITIZENS'  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS.  xiii 

Plans  were  submitted  and  finally  adopted  for  the  erection  of  a 
building  with  an  actual  seating  capacity  of  nineteen  thousand  six 
hundred,  and  which  would  be  in  all  respects  a  model  convention  hall. 

The  citizens  of  Chicago  nobly  responded  to  the  appeal  of  the 
local  committee  and  supplied  ample  means  for  carrying  out  all 
the  plans  in  relation  to  the  building  and  caring  for  the  National 
Committee. 

After  some  considerable  time  consumed  in  looking  up  a  site  for 
the  building,  the  committee  recommended  a  place  on  the  Lake 
Front,  fronting  on  Michigan  Avenue,  north  of  the  old  Exposition 
Building.  The  contract  was  awarded  on  the  llth  day  of  April, 
1892.  A  few  days  after  awarding  the  contract  there  commenced  a 
season  of  rain  and  storms  such  as  was  never  before  known  in  the 
city  of  Chicago,  which  continued  almost  incessantly  until  after  the 
close  of  the  National  Convention.  While  having  a  liberal  supply 
of  means  for  carrying  out  their  agreement  with  the  National 
Committee,  the  local  committee  were  beset  and  hampered  by  the 
elements. 

The  building  was  erected  under  the  most  adverse  circumstances, 
men  being  engaged  to  work  both  night  and  day  until  the  comple- 
tion of  the  mammoth  undertaking,  just  thirty  days  after  letting  the 
contract.  The  auditorium  of  the  building,  as  originally  constructed, 
was  admirably  arranged,  not  a  post  or  pillar  obstructing  the  view 
of  the  delegates.  The  auditorium  on  the  main  floor  was  four  hun- 
dred and  eighty  feet  long  by  two  hundred  and  forty-eight  feet 
wide.  Outside  of  the  space  allotted  to  the  delegates,  the  arrange- 
ment was  in  the  shape  of  an  amphitheatre.  The  galleries  above  were 
eighty-four  feet  deep  and  extended  entirely  around  the  building. 

The  platform  equipments  were  excellent,  while  the  press  accom- 
modations were  a  revelation  even  in  these  days  of  modern  ideas 
and  conveniences.  The  latter  surpassed  those  of  any  previous 
convention  ever  held. 

On  the  night  of  the  eleventh  of  June,  when  the  building  was  com- 
pleted and  the  decorations  for  the  Convention  were  under  way,  a 
terrific  wind  and  rain  storm  swept  over  the  city  and  carried  away 
the  roof  of  the  Convention  hall.  Immediate  preparations  were 
commenced  for  replacing  the  roof ;  an  additional  force  of  men  was 
engaged  and  work  was  again  resumed.  Night  and  day  an  increased 
force  of  men  worked  on  the  structure  and  finally  succeeded  in  get- 
ting the  hall  ready  for  the  National  Convention. 


xiv  CITIZENS'  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS. 

The  building  was  thus  finished  under  the  most  trying  circumstances. 
It  rained  continually  day  after  day  and  night  after  night,  and  it  was 
only  through  the  most  persevering  efforts  exerted  by  Mr.  F.  H. 
Winston,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Finance  and  Buildings, 
together  with  the  able  assistance  of  Joseph  Donnersberger  and  other 
able  members  of  the  committee  that  the  building  was  completed  in 
time. 

Relative  to  the  work  of  the  local  committee,  this  statement  is 
made  on  account  of  the  very  many  unjust  criticisms  made  by 
persons  who  undoubtedly  suffered  inconveniences  on  account  of  the 
wretched  weather  that  prevailed  during  the  week  of  the  National 
Democratic  Convention. 

As  stated  in  the  foregoing,  such  a  season  of  inclement  weather 
was  never  before  known  in  the  history  of  Chicago.  Too  much 
praise  cannot  be  given  to  the  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Finance 
and  Buildings  who,  together  with  his  able  co-workers,  through 
energetic  work  and  heroic  sacrifices  on  their  part,  brought  their 
work  to  a  successful  completion. 

While  the  Committee  on  Finance  and  Buildings  were  perfecting 
arrangements  for  holding  the  Convention,  the  following  Committee 
on  Reception  was  appointed  to  look  after  the  comforts  and  wants 
of  the  delegates  from  the  several  States  to  the  National  Democratic 
Convention : 

Chairman,  JOHN  C.  BLACK.  Vice  Chairman,  HENRY  M.  SHEPARD. 

Secretary,  JAMES  C.  STRAIN. 

CLAYTON  E.  CRAFTS,  DENNIS  CONSIDINE, 

WM.  C.  GOUDY,  WILLIAM  C.  ASAY, 

D.  S.  DALEY,  M.  J.  BUTLER, 

J.  H.  FARRELL,  CHARLES  SIGWALT, 

JOHN  S.  COOPER,  JOHN  CUNNINGHAM, 

LAMBERT  TREE,  THOMAS  BYRNE, 

R.  J.  SMITH,  JOHN  McGiLLEN, 

CHARLES  CORKERY,  FRANK  X.  BRANDECKER,  JR., 

B.  E.  BREMNER,  P.  J.  O'CONNELL, 

E.  S.  CUMMINGS,  SIGMUND  ZEISLER, 
E.  E.  BROWN,  EDWARD  ROSE, 
W.  G.  EWING,  A.  W.  RUDNICKI, 
STEPHEN  G.  CLARK,  Louis  NETTELHORST, 
A.  T.  EWING,  W.  T.  BAKER, 
ADOLPH  SCHOENINGER,  FRANK  SCALES, 

P.  O.  STENSLAND,  JONAS  HUTCHINSON, 

MARK  L.  CRAWFORD,  M.  F.  TULEY, 

D.  R.  CAMERON,  J.  S.  GRINNELL, 


CITIZENS'  COMMITTEE  OF  ARRANGEMENTS.                   xv 

DR.  J.  F.  TODD,  EGBERT  JAMIESON, 

MARTIN  J.  RUSSELL,  FRANK  WENTER, 

FRANK  G.  HOYNE,  F.  J.  GAULTER, 

THOMAS  GAHAN,  HARRY  KOHN, 

LAWRENCE  M.  ENNIS,  THOMAS  A.  MORAN, 

WALTER  S.  BOGLE,  W.  H.  RUSSELL, 

J.  M.  BROWN,  HENRY  F.  DONOVAN, 

DR.  D.  G.  MOORE,  GEO.  H.  KETTELLE, 

WILLIAM  LOEFFLER,  JOHN  T.  NOYES. 
J.  G.  EVEREST, 

From  the  incipiency  of  the  undertaking  to  its  successful  comple- 
tion, the  local  committees  worked  in  harmony  to  attain  their  end. 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 


The  National  Democratic  Committee  met  on  the  21st  day  of  Jan- 
uary, 1892,  pursuant  to  call,  at  the  Arlington  Hotel,  in  the  City  of 
Washington,  D.  C.,  at  12  o'clock  noon,  the  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee, Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  of  Ohio,  presiding. 

Hon.  John  W.  Ross,  the  member  of  the  Board  of  District  Com- 
missioners, welcomed  the  National  Committee  to  the  City  of  Wash- 
ington in  an  appropriate  address. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Committee,  Hon.  S.  P.  Sheerin,  of  Indiana, 
read  the  following  call  for  the  present  meeting  : 

INDIANAPOLIS,  Indiana,  Dec.  10th,  1892. 
DEAR  SIR: 

A  meeting  of  the  Democratic  National  Committee  will  be  held  at  the  Arlington 
Hotel,  in  the  City  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  on  Thursday,  the  21st  day  of  January, 
1892,  at  12  o'clock  M.,  to  fix  the  time  and  place  of  holding  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention  for  the  nomination  of  candidates  for  President  and  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States,  and  for  such  other  business  as  may  come  before  the 
Committee.  Respectfully  yours, 

S.  P.  SHEERIN, 

Secretary  Nat.  Dem.  Com. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  roll  of  the  Committee;  all  the 
States  were  represented  either  by  the  member  in  person  or  by  prox- 
ies, as  follows: 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 


Alabama— H.  D.  CLAYTON,  JR. 
Arizona — HON.      MARK     A.      SMITH 

(Proxy  for  J.  C.  HERNDON). 
Arkansas—  W.    L.   TERRY     (Proxy  for 

U.  M.  ROSE). 

California — M.  F.  TARPEY. 
Colorado— C.  S.  THOMAS. 
Connecticut—  CARLOS  FRENCH. 
Delaware— JOHN    W.   CAUSEY    (Proxy 

for  J.  A.  RODNEY). 

District  of  Columbia— WM.  DICKSON. 
Florida — WALLACE    S.   JONES    (Proxy 

for  SAMUEL  PASCO). 
Georgia — CALVIN  S.  BRICE  (Proxy  for 

J.  H.  ESTILL). 
Idaho— WM.  F.  VILAS  (Proxy  for  J.  W. 

JONES). 
Illinois— BEN.  T.  CABLE  (Proxy  for  E. 

M.  PHELPS). 

Indiana—1^.  P.  SHEERIN. 
Iowa — J.  J.  RICHARDSON. 
Kansas — C.  W.  BLAIR. 
Kentucky— HENRY  WATTERSON. 
Louisiana-?..    D.    WHITE   (Proxy   for 

J.  JEFFRIES). 

Maine — ARTHUR  SEWALL. 
Maryland— h..  P.  GORMAN. 
Massachusetts— CHAS.  D.  LEWIS. 
Michigan— EDWIN  B.  WINANS  (Proxy 

for  O.  M.  BARNES). 
Minnesota — MICHAEL  DORAN. 
Mississippi — CHAR.  HOWRY. 
Missouri — JOHN  G.  PRATHER. 


Montana — A.  W.   LYMAN    (Proxy    for 

C.  A.  BROADWATER). 
Nebraska— JAMES  E.  BOYD. 
Nevada — R.  P.  KEATING. 
New  Hampshire — A.  W.  SULLOWAY. 
New  Jersey — MILES  Ross. 
New  Mexico — G.  C.  POSEY. 
New  York — Morning,    S.  W.  BEARDS- 
LEY;     Evening,    BOURKE  CocKRAN 
(Proxies  for  W.  F.  SHEEHAN). 
North  Dakota— W.  E.  PuRCELL. 
North  Carolina — M.  W.  RANSOM. 
Oklahoma — JOHN  WALLACE. 
Ohio — CALVIN  S.  BRICE. 
Oregon — A.  NOLTNER. 
Pennsylvania — W.  T.  HARRITY. 
Rhode  Island — SAMUEL  R.  HONEY. 
South  Carolina — GEORGE  JOHNSTONE 

(Proxy  for  J.  C.  HASKELL). 
South  Dakota — JOHN  D.  LAWLER. 
Tennessee — R.  F.  LOONEY. 
Texas—  O.  T.  HOLT. 
Utah— ARTHUR  P.  GORMAN  (Proxy  for 

WM.  F.  FERRY). 
Vermont — HIRAM  ATKINS. 
Virginia — JOHN  S.  BARBOUR. 
Washington  —  }.  A.  KUHN. 
West  Virginia—].  D.  ST.  CLAIR  (Proxy 

for  J.  N.  CAMDEN). 
Wisconsin — J.  L.  MITCHELL. 
Wyoming—  L.  KABIS  (Proxy  for  W.  L. 
KUYKENDALL). 


MR.  VILAS  :  I  suppose  in  accordance  with  the  usual  custom  of 
the  National  Committee,  we  ought  to  have  an  executive  session  for 
the  purpose  of  arranging  the  order  of  business,  and  the  general  dis- 
position of  the  duties  of  the  Committee  before  us.  I  therefore  move 
that  the  Committee  now  proceed  to  a  session  for  that  purpose  with 
closed  doors. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  sergeant-at-arms  will  clear  the  room  of 
all  persons  not  members  of  this  Committee,  or  holding  proxies. 
As  we  have  a  great  deal  to  do,  and  gentlemen  do  not  want  to 
wait  in  idleness,  some  order  of  business  is  requested  to  be  suggested. 
I  cannot  say  in  advance  how  long  the  proceedings  of  the  Committee 
will  take  upon  matters  of  detail.  I  do  think,  however,  that  inasmuch. 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  5 

as  we  are  to  have  luncheon  in  the  dining  room  of  this  hotel, 
restricted  entirely  to  members  of  this  Committee,  at  3:30,  and  that 
luncheon  can  hardly  last  less  than  thirty  minutes,  that  the  Committee 
will  not  be  ready  to  hear  the  orators  to  present  the  claims  of  the 
respective  cities,  until  after  that  time  ;  say  at  four  o'clock.  I  am 
speaking  without  the  authority  of  this  Committee  ;  but  it  seems  to 
me  that  we  shall  not  be  able  to  take  up  the  matter  of  the  various  cities 
until  about  four  o'clock.  We  can  discharge  whatever  executive 
business  we  have  before  us,  before  luncheon. 

MR.  THOMAS,  of  Colorado,  moved  that  the  Committee  meet  at 
four  o'clock,  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  from  the  different  cities  on 
the  subject  of  a  selection  of  a  place  for  the  next  national  convention. 

This  motion  was  withdrawn. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  first  business  is  the  election  of  new  mem- 
bers ;  the  Secretary's  statement  of  those  who  hold  proxies  will  be 
sufficient,  in  case  there  is  no  objection,  without  further  inspection 
of  the  proxies.  The  next  regular  order  is  the  election  of  new 
members. 

JAMES  F.  KERR,  of  Pennsylvania  :  As  Chairman  of  the  State 
Central  Committee,  it  was  pretty  generally  understood  among  our 
people  that  I  should  represent  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  on  this 
Committee.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  in  Decem- 
ber last,  I  came  here  and  was  admitted  to  the  Committee  by  its 
courtesy.  Since  that  time  considerable  controversy  has  arisen  in 
our  State  as  to  the  competency  of  the  State  Central  Committee  to 
fill  the  place.  There  is  a  difference  of  opinion  over  that;  we  had 
a  meeting  of  the  State  Central  Committee  yesterday,  called  the 
regular  annual  meeting,  for  the  election  of  Chairman  and  Secretary, 
at  which  time  the  filling  of  the  vacancy  came  up.  A  portion  of  our 
people  believed  that  there  was  no  vacancy  ;  and  I  am  here  holding 
the  place  in  a  rather  peculiar  situation.  I  suppose  I  have  the  right 
to  hold  it  until  the  meeting  of  our  State  Convention  is  convened  and 
the  delegation  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention  from  our 
State  is  chosen.  Whether  that  supposition  is  correct  or  not,  I  am 
not  prepared  to  argue  here.  But  I  want  to  say  to  you  gentlemen 
here,  as  the  representatives  of  the  Democratic  Party  in  the  United 
States,  holding  the  position  that  I  do  in  this  city,  that  I  do  not 
desire  to  hold  the  position  on  this  Committee  because  I  may  have 
the  legal  right  to  do  so,  against  the  better  judgment  of  the  Demo- 
crats who  are  directing  the  affairs  of  our  party,  or  if  by  my  holding  it 
it  will  be  misunderstood.  1  want  to  relieve  the  Committee  here 


6  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

to-day  of  any  embarrassment  in  this  matter;  and  I  say  to  them  that 
I  tender  my  resignation  and  will  settle  the  matter  by  creating  a 
vacancy  upon  the  Committee  in  this  manner. 

WILLIAM  F.  HARRITY,  of  Pennsylvania :  I  have  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  State  Central  Committee  of  Pennsylvania  to  the 
Secretary  and  respectfully  submit  it  for  the  consideration  of  the 
Committee. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  next  business  in  order  will  be  the  filling  of 
vacancies,  or  settling  any  contests  which  may  have  arisen.  What 
will  be  the  pleasure  of  the  Committee  as  to  the  manner  in  which 
that  shall  be  done  ? 

MR.  THOMAS,  of  Colorado  :  I  move  the  appointment  of  a  Com- 
mittee of  five  to  which  those  contests  shall  be  referred,  to  report  to 
the  Committee  as  soon  as  practicable. 

MR.  VILAS,  of  Idaho  :  I  move  as  an  amendment  that  the  Sec- 
retary call  the  roll;  and  that  each  case  be  disposed  of  by  the  Com- 
mittee as  it  is  called. 

This  amendment  was  adopted,  and  the  motion  as  amended  was 
adopted. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  name  of  Arkansas. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  There  is  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation 
of  Hon.  S.  P.  Hughes  ;  the  State  Central  Committee  recommends 
the  election  of  Hon.  U.  M.  Rose  as  member  of  this  Committee. 

MR.  SULLOWAY  :  I  move  that  Mr.  Rose  be  elected  a  member  of 
this  Committee  in  place  of  Mr.  Hughes,  resigned. 

This  motion  was  adopted  and  Mr.  Rose  was  declared  elected. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  name  of  Kentucky. 

THE  CHAIRMAN:  There  is  a  vacancy  in  the  Committee  occa- 
sioned by  the  death  of  Mr.  Henry  D.  McHenry,  which  occurred 
about  a  year  or  eighteen  months  ago.  The  State  Central  Commit- 
tee of  Kentucky  has  recommended  to  this  Committee  that  this 
Committee  elect  Hon.  Henry  Watterson  to  fill  that  vacancy.  The 
Executive  Committee,  which  as  you  may  know,  constitutes  a  majority 
of  the  full  Committee,  25  members,  at  its  first  meeting  thereafter, 
admitted  Mr.  Watterson  and  recognized  him  as  a  member ;  he  has 
since  been  recognized  by  the  Committee  and  the  officers  of  the 
Committee  as  the  member  from  the  State  of  Kentucky.  Whatever 
formal  action  is  needed  by  the  full  Committee  may  be  taken  now. 

MR.  NOLTNER,  of  Oregon  :  I  move  that  the  action  of  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee  be  approved  ;  and  that  Mr.  Watterson  be  elected 
a  member  of  this  Committee  in  place  of  Mr.  McHenry,  deceased. 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  7 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Watterson  was  declared 
duly  elected. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Mississippi. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  In  that  case  the  Executive  Committee  admitted 
Mr.  Charles  Howry,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  State  Central 
Committee  of  Mississippi,  there  being  no  contest. 

MR.  LOONEY,  of  Tennessee  :  I  move  that  Mr.  Howry  be  elected 
a  member  of  this  Committee  in  place  of  Mr.  Johnston,  resigned. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Montana. 

MR.  MITCHELL,  of  Montana  :  I  believe  that  I  am  the  regularly 
appointed  Committeeman  from  Montana;  I  was  named  as  such  in 
St.  Louis,  and  acted  with  the  Committee  there  and  with  the  Com- 
mittee here  in  electing  its  Chairman;  and  have  acted  with  it  in 
other  matters  on  other  occasions  up  to  the  present  time.  In  the 
first  place  I  was  elected  by  the  Convention,  and  regularly  named 
by  the  Chairman.  Our  delegation  to  St.  Louis  were  instructed  to 
name  me.  They  did  so  and  I  was  elected.  Subsequently  a  Conven- 
tion assembled  in  Montana,  and  from  a  misunderstanding,  and  while 
I  was  absent  from  the  State  at  the  time,  and  was  absent  for  some 
time  after  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention,  Hon.  C.  A.  Broad- 
water  was  elected  to  this  Committee.  I  was  never  notified  of  any 
intended  change.  In  the  first  place,  I  don't  recognize  the  authority 
of  the  Convention  to  make  the  change  ;  and  I  was  never  notified ;  I 
understand  that  no  proceeding  of  the  Convention  was  certified  to 
the  National  Committee.  So  the  matter  stands  in  that  way.  I 
was  notified  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Committee  of  this  meeting  in 
the  regular  form,  as  read  here. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  By  no  fault  of  the  gentleman  from  Montana,  a 
duplicate  record  has  grown  up,  arising  out  of  the  peculiar  state  of 
facts  which  relate  to  the  Territories  which  were  formed  into  States 
immediately  after  the  last  presidential  election.  Two  members  of 
the  National  Committee  were  sent  out  to  Montana  for  the  purpose 
of  bringing  about  harmony  there  by  reconciling  the  opposing  fac- 
tions. When  the  two  members  were  there  for  that  purpose,  a  recon- 
ciliation was  brought  about,  and  an  understanding  reached  that 
certain  gentlemen  should  be  named  for  Senators  and  Members  of 
Congress,  for  Governor,  for  Chairman  of  the  State  Qentral  Com- 
mittee and  member  of  the  National  Committee;  and  it  was  their 
impression,  or  the  impression  of  some  of  them,  that  the  then  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Committee  assented  to  that  arrangement;  it 


8  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

seems  to  have  been  a  mistake,  and  that  Mr.  Mitchell  was  not  pres- 
ent, and  was  not  aware  of  that  arrangement  which  was  ratified  there. 
Their  proceeding  was  certified  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
National  Committee,  and  thereupon,  hearing  nothing  to  the  con- 
trary, we  took  up  the  name  of  Mr.  Broadwater,  conferred  with  him 
as  the  member  of  the  National  Committee  from  that  State  for  the 
past  three  years;  and  had  no  information  until  yesterday  that  there 
was  any  such  state  of  affairs  existing  there. 

Mr.  Broadwater  has  been  active  and  one  of  the  most  efficient 
members  of  the  Committee,  and  whatever  may  be  the  action  taken 
as  to  his  seat  in  this  Committee,  is  certainly  entitled  to  the  thanks 
of  the  Democracy  for  his  very  liberal  contributions  to  the  cause, 
and  for  his  hearty  work  in  its  behalf.  On  attending  this  meeting, 
and  on  hearing  that  the  member  who  had  been  selected  by  the 
National  Convention  four  years  ago  had  no  knowledge  of  this  sub- 
sequent action,  he  said  that  he  would  not  enter  into  any  contest  on 
the  matter;  and,  as  I  understand  it,  absented  himself  from  this 
meeting,  although  he  gave  a  proxy  to  a  gentleman  in  case  there  was 
a  vacancy,  or  in  case  it  was  desired  that  he  should  be  admitted  to 
represent  the  State.  Inasmuch  as  I  know  about  the  matter,  I  want 
the  members  of  the  Committee  to  understand  that  this  arrangement 
was  brought  about  at  my  instance,  not  the  selection  of  Mr.  Broad- 
water,  because  I  did  not  know  him  or  that  they  would  name  him  as 
a  member  of  the  Committee;  but  at  my  instance  this  reconciliation 
in  the  State  of  Montana  was  brought  about.  I  do  not  know  that  I 
ever  felt  more  chagrined,  after  accepting  very  large  contributions 
from  the  gentleman,  and  treating  him  as  a  member  of  the  Commit- 
tee for  a  period  of  three  years,  and  then  being  obliged  to  say  to 
him  that  there  was  some  question  about  his  seat;  that  there  was 
somebody  else  who  claimed  the  .seat  in  this  Committee. 

After  a  long  discussion  upon  the  subject,  Mr.  E.  D.  White,  of 
Louisiana,  offered  the  following,  which  was  adopted  : 

Without  in  any  way  committing  itself  to  the  right  of  a  State  Con- 
vention to  change  a  member  of  this  Committee,  inasmuch  as  the 
claimant  from  Montana  was  elected  by  the  Territory,  this  Committee 
considers  that  on  the  cessation  of  Territoryhood  and  the  arising  of 
the  condition  of  Statehood,  the  State  becomes  entitled  to  name  a 
member  of  this  Committee;  and  this  Committee  in  consequence, 
recognizes  the  action  of  the  Democratic  Convention  of  Montana, 
and  seats  Mr.  Broadwater. 

Mr.  White  then  offered  the  following  resolution: 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  9 

Resolved,  That  Mr.  Mitchell,  the  gentleman  who  was  accredited 
to  this  Committee  from  the  Territory  of  Montana  being  present  at 
the  request  of  the  Secretary,  this  Committee  appreciates  the  alac- 
rity of  Mr.  Mitchell  in  attending  this  meeting  and  cordially 
invites  Mr.  Mitchell  to  participate  in  the  deliberations  of  this  Com- 
mittee until  the  end  of  this  session. 

MR.  DORAN,  of  Minnesota:  Does  that  intend  to  permit  him  to 
vote? 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  Chair  does  not  so  understand;  Mr. 
Mitchell  is  entitled  to  be  present  at  the  deliberations ;  Mr.  Broad- 
water's  proxy  is  here  and  entitled  to  vote. 

The  resolution  of  Mr.  White  was  unanimously  adopted. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  New  Mexico. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  There  is  a  vacancy  in  the  Territory  of  New 
Mexico  occasioned  by  the  death  of  the  former  member.  The  State 
Central  Committee  has  recommended  Mr.  Niel  B.  Field  for  the 
action  of  this  Committee. 

MR.  TARPEY,  of  California  :  I  move  that  his  credentials  be  ac- 
cepted, and  Mr.  Field  be  elected  as  a  member  of  this  Committee 
from  New  Mexico. 

This  motion  was  adopted  and  Mr.  Field  declared  elected. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  North  Dakota. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  There  is  a  recommendation  from  the  State 
Convention  of  North  Dakota,  asking  that  Mr.  W.  E.  Purcell  be 
elected  a  member  of  this  Committee  from  that  State. 

MR.  DORAN:  I  move  that  Mr.  Purcell  be  elected  a  member  of 
the  National  Committee  from  North  Dakota,  and  that  the  State  of 
North  Dakota  be  placed  upon  the  roll  of  States. 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Purcell  was  declared  elected. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Oklahoma. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  This  Territory  has  been  formed  since  the  last 
National  Democratic  Convention  was  held ;  the  gentleman  is  here 
with  the  credentials  from  the  Territorial  Central  Committee  of 
Oklahoma,  asking  that  he  be  elected  a  member  of  this  Committee 
from  that  Territory. 

MR.  THOMAS  :  I  move  that  Mr.  John  Wallace  be  elected  a  mem- 
ber of  this  Committee  from  Oklahoma. 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Wallace  was  declared  elected. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  New  York. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  Executive  Committee  has  recognized  Mr. 
William  F.  Sheehan,  and  asks  that  its  action  be  confirmed,  and  that 
Mr.  Sheehan  be  elected  to  the  Committee. 


10  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

MR.  A.  W.  SULLOWAY,  of  New  Hampshire  :  I  move  that  Mr. 
Sheehan  be  elected  a  member  of  this  Committee  from  New  York. 

This  motion  was  adopted  and  Mr.  Sheehan  declared  elected. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  Pennsylvania. 

THE  CHAWMAN  :  There  is  a  vacancy  from  Pennsylvania.  The 
recommendation  is  made  by  the  State  Central  Committee  of  that 
Stale  that  Mr.  W.  T.  Harrity  be  elected  a  member  of  this  Committee 
from  that  State. 

MR.  GORMAN,  of  Maryland  :     I  offer  the  following  resolution  : 

WHEREAS,  This  Committee  delegated  to  the  Executive  Committee 
the  power  to  act  in  the  recess  of  the  Committee,  and  the  Executive 
Committee  having  acted  and  admitted  Mr.  Kerr  to  the  Committee, 
and  Mr.  Kerr  having  resigned  the  place — 

Resolved,  That  the  action  of  the  Executive  Committee  in  appoint- 
ing Mr.  Kerr  as  a  member  of  this  Committee  be  approved  and 
ratified. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

MR.  GORMAN  :  I  now  move  that  Mr.  Kerr's  resignation  be  ac- 
cepted. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

MR.  DORAN  :  I  move  that  Mr.  Harrity  be  elected  a  member  of 
this  Committee  from  Pennsylvania. 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Harrity  was  declared  elected. 

MR.  THOMAS  :  I  move  that  the  same  resolution  be  adopted  with 
reference  to  Mr.  Kerr  as  was  adopted  with  reference  to  Mr.  Mitch- 
ell ;  that  we  appreciate  his  alacrity  in  attending  the  meeting ;  and 
that  he  be  invited  to  remain  and  participate  in  its  deliberations  to 
the  close  of  its  session. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

The  Secretary  called  the  name  of  South  Dakota. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  question  arises  as  to  the  status  of  South 
Dakota  in  this  Committee.  Mr.  Steele  was  appointed  a  member  of 
this  Committee  for  Dakota,  which  has  been  divided  into  two  States 
since.  Mr.  Sleele,  living  in  the  southern  division,  the  Chair  would 
hold  that  he  should  continue  on  the  Committee  to  represent  the 
State  of  South  Dakota. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  White,  the  State  of  South  Dakota  was  directed 
to  be  placed  on  the  roll  of  States  of  this  Committee,  and  Mr. 
Steele  was  declared  to  be  the  member  of  the  Committee  from  that 
State. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  next  business  in  order  is  the  fixing  the  time 
for  holding  the  Convention. 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  11 

MR.  WHITE  :  I  move  that  we  proceed  to  fix  the  time  for  holding 
the  Convention  ;  and  that  it  be  Tuesday,  June  21,  1892,  at  twelve 
o'clock  noon. 

MR.  WATTERSON,  of  Kentucky:  I  move  to  amend  by  making  it 
Tuesday,  July  5,  1892,  at  the  same  hour. 

This  amendment  was  withdrawn  after  some  discussion. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  As  there  is  no  contest,  we  will  dispense  with 
the  roll  call;  the  question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  motion  that  we 
fix  Tuesday,  June  21,  1892,  at  twelve  o'clock  noon,  as  the  time  of 
holding  the  next  National  Democratic  Convention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  next  business  in  order  will  be  the  fixing  of 
the  place  at  which  the  Convention  is  to  be  held.  The  Charr  will 
entertain  a  motion  as  to  the  order  of  procedure. 

MR.  GORMAN  :  I  move  that  the  cities  which  desire  the  Conven- 
tion to  be  held  there  be  called  in  their  alphabetical  order;  that  the 
delegation  from  each  city  be  allowed  twenty  minutes  in  which  to 
present  the  claims  of  their  respective  cities,  to  divide  the  time  as 
they  may  elect. 

MR.  BLAIR,  of  Kansas  :  I  move  to  amend  by  striking  out  twenty 
and  inserting  thirty  minutes  to  each  city. 

This  amendment  was  lost ;  and  the  original  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  I  suggest  that  the  question  arises  as  to  what 
regulation  this  Committee  will  adopt  in  regard  to  admitting  other 
persons  than  those  gentlemen  who  wish  to  present  the  claims  of 
their  respective  cities.  The  Sub-Committee  have  had  that  subject 
under  consideration.  These  views  were  presented  :  first  the  doors 
to  be  thrown  open  and  they  be  admitted  without  restriction ;  and 
second,  that  tickets  be  furnished  to  the  chairman  of  each  city 
delegation,  sufficient  according  to  their  estimate,  to  bring  in  the 
friends  who  had  come  with  them.  The  Committee  had  adopted 
that  plan,  subject  to  your  approval ;  that  the  delegations  be  ad- 
mitted, the  citizens  of  Washington  and  casual  visitors ;  the  Com- 
mittee has  not  decided  whether  they  ought  to  be  admitted  at  one 
time  ;  it  will  be  more  convenient  to  admit  them  all  at  once;  it  will 
be  very  difficult  to  admit  them  in  any  other  way  than  to  admit 
the  visitors,  and  then  call  on  the  orators.  The  Chair  will  take  that 
to  be  the  sense  of  the  Committee  unless  objection  is  made. 

I  omitted  to  state  that  the  press  will  be  admitted  unless  there  is 
objection;  and  also  that  the  local  committee  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for  this  hall  and  all  the  other 


12  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

arrangements  made,  have  been  furnished  with  a  reasonable  number 
of  tickets,  admitting  them  and  some  of  their  friends;  members  of 
the  National  Committee  can  have  their  friends  present,  in  not 
unreasonably  great  numbers,  and  can  procure  cards  admitting  them 
also.  Unless  there  is  objection,  that  will  be  taken  as  a  direction  to 
the  officers. 

Mr.  Thomas  offered  the  following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  seven  be  appointed  by  the  chair 
(of  which  the  latter  shall  be  Chairman)  who  shall  have  exclusive 
charge  and  management  of  the  arrangements  for  holding  the  Con- 
vention, and  take  such  action  for  the  promotion  of  the  interests  of 
the  party  as  they  may  deem  best,  until  the  meeting  of  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

The  Chairman  subsequently  appointed  the  following  gentlemen 
as  such  Committee  :  Mr.  C.  S.  Brice,  Mr.  S.  P.  Sheerin,  Mr.  E.  M. 
Phelps,  Mr.  A.  P.  Gorman,  Mr.  M.  Doran,  Mr.  A.  Sewall  and  Mr. 
O.  T.  Holt. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  Chair  suggests  to  the  Committee  that  in 
view  of  the  long  and  valuable  services  of  the  late  member  from 
Pennsylvania,  as  well  as  the  similar  services  of  the  late  member 
from  Kentucky,  that  it  may  be  well  for  a  committee  to  be  appointed 
to  prepare  and  present  after  the  recess,  some  formal  resolutions, 
which  may  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  this  Committee.  I  should 
like  to  entertain  a  motion  to  that  effect. 

Mr.  BEARDSLEY,  of  New  York:  I  move  that  a  committee  of  five 
be  appointed  by  the  Chair  to  prepare  and  present  such  resolution. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

The  mover  of  the  resolution  having  requested  not  to  be  placed 
on  the  committee  as  chairman,  the  Chair  appointed  as  such  com- 
mittee Messrs.  Ransom,  Vilas,  Watterson,  Beardsley  and  Looney. 

Mr.  Vilas  asking  to  be  excused,  the  Chair  appointed  Mr.  Harrity 
in  his  place. 

MR.  MITCHELL,  of  Wisconsin:  I  move  that  the  roll  be  called  and 
that  the  member  from  each  State  shall  present  the  name  of  the  city 
from  such  State  (if  such  there  be)  desiring  the  Convention  to  be 
held  therein;  and  that  the  cities  so  presented  be  arranged  alphabet- 
ically by  the  Secretary.  And  that  the  Secretary  notify  the  delega- 
tions officially,  of  the  order  of  procedure  which  has  been  adopted 
by  this  Committee. 

The  motion  was  adopted. 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  13 

Upon  the  call  of  the  roll  of  the  States  in  pursuance  of  this  reso- 
lution, the  member  from  California  presented  the  name  of  San 
Francisco;  the  member  from  Indiana  presented  the  name  of  Indian- 
apolis; the  member  from  Michigan  presented  the  name  of  Detroit; 
the  member  from  Minnesota  presented  the  name  of  St.  Paul;  the 
member  from  Missouri  presented  the  name  of  Kansas  City;  the 
member  from  New  York  presented  the  name  of  New  York  City;  the 
member  from  Ohio  presented  the  name  of  Cincinnati;  the  member 
from  Rhode  Island  presented  the  name  of  Providence;  the  member 
from  Wisconsin  presented  the  name  of  Milwaukee. 

On  motion  the  Committee  took  a  recess  until  3.30  P.  M.,  during 
which  time  luncheon  was  served  to  the  Committee  in  the  dining 
hall  of  the  hotel. 

AFTERNOON  SESSION. 


Upon  re-convening,  the  claims  of  the  various  cities  were  presented 
as  follows: 

Cincinnati — By  Hon.  Wm.  M.  Ramsay  and  Hon.  John  F.  Follett. 

Detroit — By  Hon.  W.  S.  Mabury  and  Hon.  L.  Chipman. 

Indianapolis — By  Hon.  David  Turpie  and  Hon.  Charles  L.  Jewitt. 

Kansas  City — By  Hon.  G.  F.  Putnam  and  Senator  Geo.  G.  Vest. 

Milwaukee — By  Governor  Peck,  Mayor  Somers  and  Hon.  J.  G. 
Donnelly. 

New  York — By  Mr.  James  Breslan,  Hon.  Theodore  Myers  and 
Hon.  John  R.  Fellows. 

San  Francisco — By  Hon.  M.  F.  Tarpey  and  Hon.  Jas.  V.  Coleman. 

St.  Paul— By  Hon.  Geo.  W.  Lawler  and  Hon.  Thos.  Wilson. 

Communications  from  the  several  cities  stating  the  inducements 
and  guarantees  offered  by  them,  respectively,  were  also  filed  with 
the  Secretary. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Noltner,  the  Committee  took  a  recess  until  9 
o'clock  P.  M. 

EVENING  SESSION. 


The  Committee  re-convened  promptly  at  9  o'clock  p.  M. 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  As  this  is  an  executive  session,  the  sergeant-at- 
arms  will  see  that  all  persons  not  members  of  the  Committee  or 
holding  proxies  retire  from  the  room. 


14  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

The  Secretary  called  the  roll  of  members ;  each  State  was  repre- 
sented by  its  member  or  by  proxy ;  Mr.  Bourke  Cockran  holding 
the  proxy  of  Mr.  Sheehan,  in  place  of  Mr.  Beardsley. 

MR.  VILAS  :  I  move  that  the  following  call  be  adopted ;  and  that 
the  name  of  the  place  at  which  the  Convention  is  to  be  held  shall  be 
inserted  when  it  is  decided  upon. 

CALL. 

The  National  Democratic  Committee,  having  met  in  the  city  of  Washington, 
on  the  twenty-first  day  of  January,  1892,  has  appointed  Tuesday,  the  twenty-first 
day  of  June,  1892,  as  the  time,  and  chosen  the  city  of  ....  as  the  place 
for  holding  the  National  Democratic  Convention.  Each  State  is  entitled  to  a  rep- 
resentation therein  equal  to  double  the  number  of  its  Senators  and  Representatives 
in  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  ;  and  each  Territory  and  the  District  of 
Columbia  shall  have  two  delegates.  All  Democratic  conservative  citizens  of  the 
United  States,  irrespective  of  past  political  associations  and  differences,  who  can 
unite  with  us  in  the  effort  for  pure,  economical  and  constitutional  government,  are 
cordially  invited  to  join  us  in  sending  delegates  to  the  Convention. 

W.  L.  Terry,  of  Arkansas,  offered  an  amendment  that  each  State 
shall  be   entitled   to    double   the   representation   under    the    new 
apportionment. 

This  amendment  was   accepted  and   the   call,  as  amended,   was 
adopted  as  the  call,  the  name  of  the  place   to   be   inserted  when 
determined  upon. 

Mr.  Tarpey,  of  California,  moved  that  the  Committee  proceed  to 
ballot  for  place  of  holding  Convention. 

Mr.  Cockran,  of  New  York,  moved  to  amend  as  follows  :     That 
the  Secretary  call  the  roll,  and  that  as  each   member's   name   is 
called  he  shall  state  the  city  of  his  choice. 

This  amendment  was  adopted,  and  the  motion  as  amended  was 
adopted. 

The  Committee  proceeded  to  cast  the  first  ballot  as  follows: 
Whole  number  of  votes  cast         ...  49 

Chicago,  ......  1 

Cincinnati,          ......  3 

Detroit, 2 

Indianapolis,      ......  2 

Kansas  City,       .          .          .          .          .          .          13 

Milwaukee,        .          .          .          .          .          .8 

New  York,          ......  5 

St.  Paul, 7 

San  Francisco,   ......  8 —     49 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  15 

Mr.  Blair,  of  Kansas,  was  called  to  the  chair. 

Mr.  Watterson,  of  Kentucky,  then  offered  the  following  resolutions 
from  the  Committee  appointed  to  draft  resolution  on  the  deaths  of 
Mr.  McHenry  and  Mr.  Scott : 

Since  the  last  meeting  of  this  Committee  it  has  pleased  Almighty 
God  to  remove  from  the  midst  of  us  the  Hon.  Wm.  L.  Scott,  a 
member  from  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Hon.  Henry  D. 
McHenry,  a  member  from  the  State  of  Kentucky,  therefore — 

BE  IT  RESOLVED,  That  in  the  death  of  these  gentlemen  this  Com- 
mittee deplores  the  loss  of  Democrats  faithful  to  every  duty,  and  of 
colleagues  endeared  to  their  associates  by  years  of  friendly  inter- 
course. 

Resolved,  that  this  expression  of  respectful  homage  be  spread 
upon  the  records  of  this  Committee,  and  that  the  Secretary  be 
instructed  to  transmit  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  family  of  the 
deceased. 

These  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  by  a  rising  vote. 

The  Committee  then  proceeded  to  ballot  as  follows: 

SECOND    BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Detroit,               2 

Indianapolis,      .          .          .          .          .          .2 

Kansas  City,      ......  12 

Milwaukee,         ......  10 

New  York,         ......  4 

St.  Paul,               7 

San  Francisco,   ......  8 

Chicago,              ......  2 

Cincinnati,          ......  2 —     49 

«  THIRD    BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,  ...  49 

Cincinnati,          ......  3 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  2 

Kansas  City,      ......  5 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .          .          .          .  10 

New  York,         ......  1 

St.  Paul,  9 

San  Francisco,  .....  15 

Chicago,  ......  3 —     49 


16  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

FOURTH  BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes,       ....  49 

Cincinnati,         ......  6 

Detroit,  3 

Indianapolis,      ......  7 

Kansas  City,      ......  6 

Milwaukee,        ......  8 

New  York,          ......  1 

St.  Paul, 13 

San  Francisco,  .....  2 

Chicago, 3 —     49 

FIFTH    BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Cincinnati,          .          .          .          .          .          .  11 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  2 

Kansas  City,       .          .          .          .          .          .  10 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .          .          .          .  10 

New  York,         .*....  4 

St.  Paul,  ; 8 

Chicago, 3—     49 

SIXTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Cincinnati,         ......  2 

Detroit,  19 

Indianapolis,      ......  3 

Kansas  City,       ......  6 

Milwaukee,        ......  8 

New  York,          .          .          .          .          .          .  3 

St.  Paul,  6 

Chicago, 2  —     49 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  17 

SEVENTH  BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Des  Moines,       ......  17 

Detroit,  .          .          .          .  *      .          .  i 

Cincinnati,         ......  2 

Indianapolis,      ......  l 

Kansas  City,      ......  7 

Milwaukee,         ......  9 

New  York,         ......  3 

St.  Paul,  ......  4 

Chicago,  5 —     49 

EIGHTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast, 

Cincinnati,          ...... 

Detroit,  

Indianapolis,     .          .          .          .          . 

Kansas  City,      ...... 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .  .          .  9 

New  York,          ......  1 

St.  Paul, 6 

Chicago, 3—49 

NINTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,         ...  49 

Cincinnati,         ......  l 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  l 

Kansas  City,      ......  6 

Milwaukee,         ......  20 

New  York, 10 

St.  Paul,  6 

Chicago, 4 —     49 


18  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

TENTH  BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      .          .  •       .          .          .          .  1 

Kansas  City,       ......  7 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .          .          .          .  18 

New  York, 1 

St.  Paul, 8 

Chicago, 13 —     49 

ELEVENTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  1 

Kansas  City, 3 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .          .          .          .  22 

New  York,         ......  1 

St.  Paul,  6 

Chicago,  ..'...  15—     49 

TWELFTH    BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Detroit,  ......  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  1 

Kansas  City,      ......  3 

New  York,          ......  1 

Chicago,  .          .          .          .          .          .  17 

St.  Paul,  6 

Milwaukee,         ......  20 —    49 

THIRTEENTH    BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Detroit,  1 

Indianapolis,      ......  1 

Kansas  City,       ......  4 

Milwaukee,         .          .          .          .          .          .  21 

St.  Paul,  5 

Chicago, 17—     49 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  19 

MR.  VILAS  :  Before  Milwaukee  determined  to  present  the  claims 
of  that  city  before  the  National  Committee  as  the  proper  place  for 
holding  the  National  Convention,  citizens  of  Milwaukee  went  to 
Chicago,  at  my  suggestion,  and  had  a  conversation  with  leading 
citizens  of  that  city,  and  they  were  assured  that  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago was  not  in  the  race  for  the  Convention,  did  not  desire  it,  nor 
did  they  think  it  proper  that  Chicago  should  have  it,  under  the 
peculiar  circumstances  in  which  they  were  placed.  Of  course  it  was 
perfectly  obvious  to  us  that  Milwaukee  could  never  be  a  competitor 
for  the  place  against  Chicago. 

I  want  to  make  that  statement,  with  other  reasons  that  have  been 
given  to-day,  that  the  Committee  might  know  the  facts  with  refer- 
ence to  the  dealings  of  Milwaukee  with  the  city  of  Chicago,  to  show 
that  Chicago  could  not  fairly  receive  the  Convention. 

MR.  BRICE,  of  Ohio  :  If  the  Committee  will  excuse  me,  I  ought, 
perhaps,  to  say  a  word.  One  of  the  members  of  the  Committee  has 
asked  a  question  which  each  of  the  other  members  has  the  right  to 
ask  me.  The  subject  of  the  place  of  holding  the  Convention  has 
been  one  that  has  given  me  personally  some  anxiety  during  the  past 
few  weeks.  I  was  committed  to  a  city  in  my  own  State;  that  com- 
mittal was  more  on  the  theory  that  for  various  reasons  the  city  of 
New  York  was  practically  out  of  the  situation,  and  would  not  be 
chosen  ;  that  the  city  of  Chicago,  for  reasons  which  you  can  under- 
stand as  well  as  I,  was  not  to  be  chosen,  would  not  ask  the  Conven- 
tion and  could  not  give  the  guarantees  that  this  Convention  would 
require.  I  do  not  hesitate  to  state  publicly,  as  I  have  stated  pri- 
vately to  friends  of  mine,  that  in  my  judgment  there  were  but  twcfc 
cities  in  this  country — Chicago  and  New  York — fully  capable  of 
accommodating  the  Convention;  that  outside  of  those  two  cities 
eight  or  nine  other  cities  were  perhaps  equally  capable  of  accom- 
modating the  Convention,  with  the  single  exception  of  the  City  of 
Cincinnati,  which,  by  reason  of  the  large  population,  I  believe 
would  be  better  capable  of  affording  the  requisite  accommodations 
than  any  of  the  others.  That  may  have  been  a  personal  prejudice 
of  my  own.  However,  I  put  them  all  substantially  on  a  level. 

As  the  time  for  holding  this  meeting  approached,  statements  by 
friends  of  the  various  committees  were  made  to  me  personally  as  to 
the  -character  and  extent  of  the  guarantees  that  would  be  made,  as 
to  the  accommodations  which  would  be  afforded,  the  course  that 
would  be  adopted  by  the  hotel-keepers  as  a  class ;  the  care  that 
would  be  taken  of  the  Committee,  of  the  Convention,  of  the 


20  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

delegates,  of  the  visiting  clubs  and  crowds.  The  results  of  those 
inquiries  have  not  been  collected,  as  I  presumed  they  would  be,  by 
some  committee  of  this  Committee,  and  carefully  reported,  as  on  a 
serious  business  question  like  this  should  have  been  done.  But  it 
was  not  done.  Perhaps  I  am  to  blame  that  this  was  neglected. 
Many  of  the  members  of  this  Committee  are  voting  upon  a  slight 
knowledge  of  the  situation,  some  from  motives  of  personal  friendship 
for  citizens  of  particular  cities,  or  from  a  personal  choice  of  loca- 
tion. But  if  we  approach  this  as  a  Committee  of  the  National 
Democratic  Party,  we  must  approach  it  on  a  business  basis,  and 
endeavor  to  decide  it  on  the  line  of  putting  the  Convention  where 
it  can  be  best  accommodated.  I  am  ready  to  say  now,  as  I  said 
before,  that  if  New  York  and  Chicago  are  unavailable,  I  have  no 
preference,  except  the  personal  one  arising  in  regard  to  my  own 
State,  as  among  several  of  the  cities  competing.  There  are  no 
motives  in  my  own  mind,  nor,  so  far  as  I  know,  in  the  minds  of 
those  who  have  given  most  thought  to  this  subject,  other  than  to 
dispose  of  the  question  on  a  purely  business  basis. 

Within  the  past  three  days,  since  this  subject  has  been  discussed 
in  this  city,  the  question  of  Chicago  has  been  pressed  by  members 
of  this  Committee,  not,  I  will  say,  by  the  representatives  of  Illinois 
in  the  House  and  in  the  Senate,  nor  by  any  organized  committee 
or  delegation  coming  here  to  represent  the  city  of  Chicago,  but  by 
members  of  the  Committee  who  did  not  have  any  particular  loca- 
tion to  which  they  felt  themselves  pledged ;  men  from  a  distance 
who  had  attended  Democratic  Conventions  before  and  who  had  in 
mind  the  kind  and  character  of  the  accommodations  that  a  con- 
vention ought  to  have.  I  stated  to  many  of  those  gentlemen,  and 
I  have  stated  to  several  of  the  delegations  in  a  body  perhaps,  that 
the  city  of  Chicago  was  regarded  by  members  of  the  Committee 
as  unwilling  to  give  to  the  Committee  those  financial  and  other 
guarantees  which  were  required  before  this  Committee  could  take 
such  action.  Thereupon  the  gentlemen  who  were  interested  in  the 
city  of  Chicago,  or  who  were  interested  rather  in  locating  the  Con- 
vention in  Chicago,  communicated  with  gentlemen  in  Chicago  of  a 
financial  responsibility  sufficient  to  secure  the  carrying  out  of  all 
their  promises  and  all  their,  agreements  ;  and  their  response  was 
that  while  Chicago  was  not  in  a  position  to  make  application,  and 
had  taken  no  organized  step  to  send  a  delegation  to  the  Committee 
asking  for  the  Convention,  if  the  Committee  saw  fit  to  locate  it  in 
Chicago,  they  would  give  the  guarantee  that  they  would  do  in  every 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  21 

respect  what  they  had  done  in  1884.  When  my  city  of  Cincinnati 
was  pressed  out  of  the  running  by  the  fact  that  it  did  not  offer  the 
requisite  accommodations,  my  mind  went  next  to  the  city  which 
seemed  to  afford  the  greatest  accommodations  ;  and  I  will  take  the 
personal  responsibility  of  saying,  and  I  am  authorized  to  say,  on  the 
guarantees  which  have  been  received  by  members  of  the  Committee, 
that  the  same  guarantees  that  were  given  in  1884  on  the  part  of 
Chicago  will  be  given  now.  That  is  the  reason  why  my  vote  went 
to  the  city  of  Chicago ;  and  while  it  is  purely  personal,  inasmuch 
as  the  question  was  asked  of  me  by  one  or  two  delegates,  I  have 
thought  it  best  to  state  publicly  what  I  have  just  stated. 
The  Committee  proceeded  to  cast  the 

FOURTEENTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Chicago,              .          .          .          .          .          .  21 

Milwaukee,         ......  22 

Detroit,               1 

Kansas  City, 2 

St.  Paul, 3—49 

FIFTEENTH   BALLOT. 

Whole  number  of  votes  cast,        ...  49 

Chicago,             .          •'...-..          ••;•-.•          •  27 

Milwaukee,         ......  18 

Kansas  City,       ......  2 

Detroit,               1 

St.  Paul,              1—49 

Chicago  having  received  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast,  was 
declared  the  choice  of  the  Committee  as  the  place  of  holding  the 
Convention;  and  on  motion  of  Mr.  Mitchell,  of  Wisconsin,  the 
choice  was  made  unanimous. 

Mr.  Mitchell,  of  Wisconsin,  formally  tendered  his  resignation,  stat- 
ing that  it  had  been  tendered  to  and  accepted  by  the  State  Central 
Committee  of  Wisconsin,  to  take  effect  February  1,  1892,  who  had 
recommended  E.  C.  Wall  as  his  successor,  to  take  effect  February  1, 
1892. 

Mr.  Mitchell's  resignation  was  accepted,  and  Mr.  E.  C.  Wall  was 
elected  his  successor. 


22  PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Watterson,  of  Kentucky,  the  blank  left  in  the 
official  call  was  directed  to  be  filled  by  the  insertion  of  the  name 
of  the  city  of  Chicago  as  the  place  for  holding  the  Convention. 

The  following  is  the  call  adopted  by  the  Committee  at  this 
session  : 

CALL 

FOR  THE 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION, 

1892. 

The  National  Democratic  Committee,  at  a  meeting  held  this  day  in  the  city  of 
Washington,  D.  C.,  has  appointed  Tuesday,  the  21st  day  of  June,  1892,  as  the 
time,  and  chosen  the  city  of  Chicago  as  the  place,  for  holding  the  National  Demo» 
cratic  Convention.  Each  State  is  entitled  to  representation  therein  equal  to 
double  the  representation  to  which  it  is  entitled  in  the  next  Electoral  College,  and 
each  Territory  and  the  District  of  Columbia  shall  have  two  delegates.  All  Demo- 
cratic conservative  citizens  of  the  United  States,  irrespective  of  past  political  asso- 
ciations and  differences,  who  can  unite  with  us  in  the  effort  for  pure,  economical 
and  constitutional  government,  are  cordially  invited  to  join  in  sending  delegates 
1 1  the  Convention. 

January  21,  1892.  CALVIN  S.  BRICE, 

Chairman. 

SIMON  P.  SHEERIN, 

Secretary. 

Mr.  Watterson,  of  Kentucky,  offered  the  following  resolution : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  are  due  to  Hon. 
William  Dickson,  the  member  from  the  District  of  Columbia,  and 
the  Committee  of  Reception,  for  his  and  their  tireless  and  suc- 
cessful efforts  towards  the  comfort  and  convenience  of  members 
during  their  sojourn  in  Washington. 

Mr.  Atkins,  of  Vermont,  moved  that  the  arrangements,  aside  from 
those  that  belong  to  the  Committee  of  Seven,  for  the  official  report 
of  the  Convention,  and  all  those  matters  be  placed  in  the  hands  of 
the  Chairman  and  Secretary. 

The  motion  was  adopted. 

Mr.  Neil  B.  Field,  of  New  Mexico,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion : 

WHEREAS,  The  Democrats  of  the  Territory  of  New  Mexico  have 
refused  to  accept  Statehood  under  a  constitution  which  attempted 
to  secure  to  the  Republicans  control  of  the  Legislature,  and  have 
sacrificed  their  personal  interests  to  the  good  of  the  party  at  large, 


PRELIMINARY  PROCEEDINGS.  23 

Therefore,  Be  it  Resolved,  That  in  the  next  National  Convention 
the  Democrats  of  New  Mexico  should  be  entitled  to  representation 
equal  to  that  allowed  to  the  States  last  admitted  into  the  Union. 

MR.  GORMAN,  of  Maryland  :     I  move  to  lay  the  motion  on  the 
table,  as  I  submit  that  the  Committee  has  no  power  to  entertain  it. 
This  motion  was  adopted. 
Mr.  Sheerin,  of  Indiana,  offered  the  following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  National  Democratic  Committee  accepts  with 
regret  the  resignation  of  Mr.  Herman  Oelrichs,  the  representative 
from  the  State  of  New  York.  In  consenting  to  the  retirement,  by 
his  own  request,  of  so  honored  and  valuable  an  associate,  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Committee  desire  to  express  their  high  appreciation  of 
the  wisdom  of  his  counsel,  the  energy  and  attention  which  he  has 
bestowed  for  the  benefit  of  the  party,  and  his  usefulness  as  an 
adviser. 

The  Chairman  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee  is  requested 
to  formally  convey  to  Mr.  Herman  Oelrichs  these  expressions  of 
the  high  esteem  in  which  he  has  been  uniformly  held  by  his  asso- 
ciates on  the  Committee. 

On  motion,  the  Committee  adjourned,  to  meet  on  Monday,  June 
20,  1892,  at  12  o'clock  noon,  at  a  place  to  be  fixed  by  the  Com- 
mittee of  Arrangements.  Due  notice  will  be  given  to  each  member 
of  the  Committee. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION, 


FIRST    DAY. 


CHICAGO,  June  21,  1892. 

The  National  Democratic  Convention,  to  nominate 
candidates  for  the  office  of  President  and  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States,  assembled  in  the  building  prepared 
for  them,  in  the  City  of  Chicago,  this  day  at  12  o'clock, 
noon,  pursuant  to  the  call  of  the  National  Democratic 
Committee. 

Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  of  Ohio,  the  Chairman  of  the 
National  Democratic  Committee,  called  the  Convention 
to  order  at  12:40  P.  M.,  in  the  following  words  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Convention  will  come  to  order.  I  have  the 
pleasure  of  introducing  the  Rev.  John  Rouse,  D.D.,  pastor  of 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  of  Chicago,  who  will  open  the  proceed- 
ings of  this  Convention  with  prayer  : 

r 
PRAYER. 

O  Almighty  God,  Lord  of  Sabaoth,  and  Great  Judge  of  all  the 
earth,  Who  hath  created  man  in  Thine  image,  that  he  may  do  Thy 
will  on  earth,  as  Thy  holy  angels  always  do  Thy  service  in  Heaven, 
vouchsafe  to  send  Thy  blessing  upon  these,  Thy  servants,  that  they 
may  be  guided  by  Thy  holy  spirit  to  do  all  such  things  as  are  pleas- 
ing in  Thy  sight.  Fill  them  with  wisdom  and  understanding  that 
truth  and  justice  may  be  promoted  by  their  consultations,  and  piety 
and  religion  increased  throughout  this  land.  Let  all  bitterness  and 
wrath,  all  anger  and  evil  speaking  be  put  away  from  them,  with  all 
malice,  so  that  they  may  rightly  discharge  their  duties  to  Thee,  to 
each  other,  and  to  all  men.  We  adore  and  magnify  Thy  glorious 


26  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

name  for  all  the  blessings,  many  and  great,  that  Thou  hast  showered 
upon  this  nation,  and  we  beseech  Thee  to  continue  Thy  loving 
kindness,  so  that  peace  may  flourish'and  true  liberty  abound.  O, 
Thou  that  hearest  prayer,  we  are  not  worthy  of  the  least  of  all  thy 
mercies,  but  hear  Thou  from  Heaven,  Thy  dwelling  place,  and  when 
Thou  hearest,  Lord,  forgive  and  graciously  hearken  to  these  our 
supplications,  which  we  make  in  the  name  and  for  the  sake  of 
Thy  Son,  our  Savior,  Jesus  Christ. 

Our  Father  Who  art  in  Heaven,  hallowed  be  Thy  name,  Thy 
kingdom  come,  Thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  Heaven.  Give 
us  this  day  our  daily  bread.  And  forgive  us  our  trespasses  as  we 
forgive  those  who  trespass  against  us.  And  lead  us  not  into 
temptation,  but  deliver  us  from  evil :  for  Thine  is  the  kingdom,  and 
the  power,  and  the  glory,  forever  and  forever.  Amen. 

THE  CHAIR:  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention: — By  direction  of 
the  National  Committee,  the  Chair  presents  to  the  Convention  as 
its  temporary  officers,  the  gentlemen  named  in  the  following  list, 
which  the  Secretary  will  read. 

Hon.  S.  P.  Sheerin,  Secretary  of  the  National  Dem- 
ocratic Committee,  then  read  the  following-  list  of  the 
Temporary  Organization  : 

For.  Temporary  Chairman — Hon.  William  C.  Owens,  of  Kentucky. 

For  Secretary — Hon.  Simon  P.  Sheerin,  of  Indiana. 

For  Assistant  Secretaries — Edward  L.  Merritt,  of  Illinois  ;  William 
H.  Doyle,  of  Pennsylvania ;  Hambleton  Shepperd,  of  Virginia ; 
Clinton  Tillery,  of  Missouri ;  L.  E.  Rowley,  of  Michigan  ;  Robert  E. 
Wilson,  of  Mississippi ;  Charles  R.  De  Freest,  of  New  York  ;  James 
C.  Strain,  of  Illinois. 

For  Chief  Reading  Clerk— Hon.  Nicholas  M.  Bell,  of  Missouri. 

Por  Assistant  Reading  Clerks — Martin  Morrison,  of  Indiana;  Cato 
Sells,  of  Iowa  ;  Bernard  Brown,  of  Montana  ;  William  E.  Thompson, 
of  Michigan  ;  Henry  J.  Lynn,  of  Tennessee  ;  William  W.  Carr,  of 
Pennsylvania. 

For  Sergeant-at-Arms — Hon.  Richard  J.  Bright,  of  Indiana. 

For  Official  Stenographer — Edward  B.  Dickinson,  of  New  York. 
The  Convention  unanimously  adopted  the  list  as  read 
by  Mr.  Sheerin,  after  which  the  Chairman  said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  Chair  will  appoint  as  a  Committee  to  present 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  27 

to  you  the  Temporary  Chairman,  Gen.  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illi- 
nois ;  Hon.  Charles  L.  Jewett,  of  Indiana ;  and  Hon.  Thomas  L. 
Wilson,  of  Minnesota. 

The  Committee  appointed  to  present  the  Temporary 
Chairman  to  the  Convention  escorted  him  to  the  plat- 
form, after  which  the  Chairman  said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — I  have  the  honor 
and  the  pleasure  to  introduce  your  Temporary  Chairman,  Hon.  W. 
C.  Owens,  of  Kentucky. 

Mr.  Owens  then  addressed  the  Convention  as  follows  : 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  WILLIAM    C.  OWENS,  OF    KENTUCKY. 

Two  great  dangers  menace  the  Democratic  party ;  one  is 
external,  the  other  internal.  The  first  is  the  organized  machinery 
of  organized  capital  supported  by  the  whole  power  of  the  govern- 
ment ;  the  second  is  a  disposition  among  Democrats  to  make  issues 
among  themselves.  Two  needs,  therefore,  stand  before  us  indis- 
pensable to  success — unity  and  harmony.  Of  the  first  this  chair 
and  gavel  stand  representative ;  the  second  it  remains  for  you  to 
supply. 

In  this  spirit  I  greet  you,  fellow  Democrats,  as  the  advance  guard 
of  a  grand  army  sent  forward  to  blaze  a  pathway  to  victory.  How 
momentous  is  your  responsibility,  I  need  not  tell  you.  If  you  work 
in  wisdom,  the  millions  toiling  in  shop  and  mine  and  field  will  rise 
and  call  you  blessed.  The  roll-call  of  the  republic  attests  that  its 
heart  and  its  conscience  are  with  us  in  our  war  with  the  representa- 
tives of  greed.  The  best  thought  of  our  party  is  a  platform  that 
challenges  the  approbation  and  invites  the  support  of  the  people. 

We  can  succeed  ;  we  must  do  more.  We  must  deserve  success. 
Above  the  ruin,  if  need  be,  of  selfish  combinations,  we  must  rear  a 
temple  to  the  plain  people,  and  build  a  shrine  so  broad  that  every 
lover  of  his  kind  may  kneel.  Let  us  not  mistake  ;  our  work  begins 
here;  under  the  sun  of  summer  and  the  frost  of  autumn  we  must 
carry  it  forward  with  unfaltering  courage  to  a  triumphant  close. 

This,  again,  must  be  a  campaign  of  education.  The  study  of  the 
cornfield,  begun  in  the  West  or  South,  must  be  carried  into  every 
hamlet  of  the  East  and  North. 

The  burden  must  be  lifted  from  the  back  of  toil,  and  to  that  end 
they  have  a  right  to  demand  that  whoever  bears  our  banner  must 


28  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

lift  it  above  the  smoke  of  conflict  and  the  din  of  faction,  that  every 
Democrat  of  the  Union  may  follow  its  lead  in  exultation  and  irre- 
sistible combat.  The  people  must  learn  their  true  relation  to  the 
tax-gatherer.  They  must  learn  that  no  railroad  presidents  cham- 
pion the  tribunes  of  the  people ;  that  no  taskmasters  write  our 
tariff  bills.  They  must  learn,*  too,  that  for  personal  and  political 
advantage  their  country  was  menaced  by  the  threat  of  war,  and 
they  wiH  learn  with  shame  and  regret  that  on  the  very  day  that  the 
warlike  proclamation  of  the  President  was  read  in  the  halls  of  Con- 
gress, the  peaceful  response  of  the  little  eight-by-ten  republic  of 
Chili  accepting  the  terms  of  the  Presidential  "ultimatum  was  read  in 
every  capital  of  the  world.  Our  opponents  must  be  measured  by 
their  deeds,  and  not  by  their  professions. 

The  Fifty-first  Congress  wrote  the  blackest  page  in  the  history  of 
our  legislative  government,  and  became  a  thing  of  the  past.  It 
challenged  the  approval  of  the  people,  and  they  responded  in  tones 
so  portentous  that  it  seemed  the  voice  of  God.  With  a  unanimity 
that  finds  no  parallel  in  the  story  of  popular  government  they 
declared  that  a  billion  dollars  was  far  too  much  to  pay  for  such  a 
museum  of  freaks.  If  we  but  permit  it  they  will  stand  by  their 
verdicts. 

That  our  cause  may  triumph,  let  us  work  in  kindness.  In  the 
heat  of  contention  let  us  not  forget  that  our  political  friend  and 
brother  may  be  just  as  honest,  and  perhaps  better  informed.  Im- 
pelled by  one  purpose,  and  that  purpose  the  common  good,  we  will 
free  ourselves  from  the  bickerings  and  heartburnings  that  character- 
ized the  Republican  party  when  its  Marshal  Ney  went  down  at 
Minneapolis  before  the  mailed  legions  of  the  bread-and-butter 
brigade. 

MR.  WHITE,  of  California :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  to  read  the 
following  resolution.  Shall  I  read  it,  or  send  it  to  the  Secretary  to 
be  read  ?  I  will  read  it. 

Resolved,  That  the  roll  of  States  and  Territories  be  now  called, 
and  that  each  delegation  name  one  member  to  act  as  member  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials,  one  member  on  the  Committee  on 
Permanent  Organization,  one  member  on  the  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions, and  that  all  resolutions  relating  to  the  platform  of  the 
Democratic  party  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions 
without  debate  ;  and  that  the  credentials  of  each  delegation  be 
delivered  to  the  member  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  from 
such  delegation.  I  move  the  adoption  of  the  resolution. 

THE  CHAIR  :     Send  the  resolution  to  the  desk. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  29 

GEN.  E.  S.  BRAGG,  of  Wisconsin  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  to 
strike  out  all  of  that  resolution  after  the  word  "resolved,"  and 
incorporate  the  following,  which  the  Secretary  will  please  read. 

THE  CHAIR:  The  gentleman  from  Wisconsin  moves  to  strike 
out  all  of  the  resolution  offered  by  the  gentleman  from  California, 
after  the  word  "resolved,"  and  to  insert  the  following,  which  will 
be  read  by  the  Secretary. 

THE  SECRETARY  :     Mr.  Bragg  offers  the  following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  rules  of  the  last  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention govern  this  body  until  otherwise  ordered. 

GEN.  BRAGG  :     I  move  its  adoption. 

MR.  WHITE  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  will  temporarily  withdraw  the 
resolution  offered  by  myself,  as  I  think  Gen.  Bragg's  resolution  is  in 
order  first. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  resolution  is  withdrawn  by  the  gentleman 
from  California  for  the  purpose  of  acting  upon  the  resolution  pre- 
sented by  Gen.  Bragg,  of  Wisconsin.  The  question  is  on  the 
adoption  of  the  resolution  presented  by  the  gentleman  from  Wis- 
consin. 

The  resolution  of  Gen.  Bragg  was  again  read  to  the 
Convention  by  Secretary  Bell  and  unanimously  adopted.* 

MR.  WHITE  :     I  now  again  offer  the  resolution  presented  before. 
THE  CHAIR  :     Send  the  resolution  to  the  Secretary  to  be  read. 

MR.  WHITE  :  It  is  practically  the  same  resolution  adopted  at  the 
last  National  Convention. 

The  resolution  was  again  read  by  the  Secretary. 

MR.  RUFUS  N.  RHODES,  of  Alabama  :  I  [desire  to  offer  as  an 
amendment  the  following : 

MR.  JOHN  I.  LEVEY,  of  Oklahoma  :  Mr.  Chairman,  the  Okla- 
homa delegation  has  no  seat  in  this  Convention,  and  we  want  to 
know  the  reason  why. 


*  For  general  information  these  rules  as  adopted  by  the  National  Democratic  Convention, 
held  in  Cincinnati  on  the  first  day  of  June,  1852.  are  here  inserted,  as  follows: 

"Resolved,  That  the  rules  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  as  far  as  applicable  for  the  govern- 
ment of  the  Convention,  be  adopted  as  the  rules  of  this  Convention. 

"Resolved,  That  two-thirds  of  the  whole  number  of  votes  given  shall  be  necessary  to  be  a 
nomination  of  Candidates  for  President  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States  by  this  Convention. 

"  Resolved,  That  in  voting  upon  any  question  which  may  arise  in  the  proceedings  of  this  Con- 
vention, the  vote  shall  be  taken  by  States,  at  the  request  of  any  one  State — each  State  to  be  en- 
titled to  the  number  of  votes  {o  which  each  State  is  entitled  in  the  next  electoral  college,  without 
regard  to  the  number  of  delegates  in  attendance  ;  the  manner  in  which  said  vote  is  to  be  cast  to  be 
decided  by  the  delegation  of  each  State  by  itself." 


80  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  business  of  the  Sergeant-at-Arms  is  to  furnish 
you  with  seats  or  to  furnish  you  information. 

The  following  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  Rhodes,  of 
Alabama,  was  read  by  the  Secretary  : 

Resolved,  That  the  roll  of  the  States  and  Territories  be  now 
called  and  that  each  delegation  name  one  member  to  act  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  one  member  on  the  Committee 
on  Permanent  Organization,  one  member  on  the  Committee  on 
Rules  and  Order  of  Business,  one  member  on  the  Committee  on 
Platform  ;  and  that  all  resolutions  in  relation  to  the  platform,  and 
all  communications  addressed  to  the  Convention  be  referred  with- 
out reading  to  this  committee  without  debate. 

MR.  RHODES  :  The  amendment  simply  provides  for  an  additional 
committee  :  a  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business. 

MR.  STEPHEN  N.  WHITE,  of  California  :  The  gentleman  is  labor- 
ing under  a  mistake.  The  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization 
refers  to  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization  and  Order  of 
Business.  It  is  so  designated  in  the  official  report  of  the  two  last 
Conventions. 

MR.  RHODES  :  The  difference  is  that  one  committee  is  provided 
by  the  gentleman  from  California  on  Organization  and  Rules  and 
Order  of  Business ;  and  the  amendment  provides  for  two,  one  on 
Organization,  and  another  committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of 
Business. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  question  is  on  the  amendment. 

The  amendment  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR:      The  question  is  now  on  the  resolution  as  amended. 

The  resolution  as  amended  was  unanimously  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Under  that  resolution  the  roll  call  of  the  States 
will  be  in  order.  The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

THE  SECRETARY  :  I  would  ask  the  gentlemen  of  the  different 
delegations  if  they  will  write  out  the  names  of  these  gentlemen  of 
these  different  committees,  and  send  them  to  the  Clerk's  desk. 

The  call  of  the  roll  of  the  States  was  commenced,  and 
the  following  names  were  announced  on  the  different 
committees. 

The  chairmen  of  several  delegations,  during  the  call 
of  the  roll,  announced  the  names  of  gentlemen  to  serve 


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31 


on  the  National  Committee,  on  the  Committee  on  Noti- 
fication, and  as  Vice-Presidents  and  Secretaries  of  the 
Permanent  Organization.  Whereupon.  Mr.  Barnes 
Compton,  of  Maryland,  said  : 

MR.  COMPTON,  of  Maryland :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order,  Mr. 
Chairman. 

THE  CHAIR  :     State  the  point  of  order. 

MR.  COMPTON  :  It  is  this  :  that  a  number  of  delegations  are 
indicating  gentlemen  to  serve  on  committees  not  called  for  by  the 
resolutions,  and  If  this  is  to  be  done  then  we  ask  the  same  privilege. 

THE  CHAIR  :  If  the  committee  is  not  provided  for,  those  gentle- 
men will  have  but  little  work  to  do,  and  it  will  not  be  necessary  to 
appoint  them. 

MR.  COMPTON  :     Then  my  point  of  order  is  well  taken,  I  presume  ? 

THE  CHAIR  :     Yes,  your  point  is  well  taken. 

The  following  are  the  several  committees  : 

COMMITTEE    ON    CREDENTIALS. 


Alabama — Jno.  B.  Knox. 
Arkansas — W.  J.  Stowers. 
California—^.  W.  Foote. 
Colorado — Thos.  J.  O'Donnell. 
Connecticut — James  B.  Shannon. 
Delaware — John  W.  Causey. 
Florida — F.  Adams. 
Georgia — F.  H.  Richardson. 
Idaho—}.  M.  Burke. 
Illinois — E.  R.  E.  Kimbrough. 
Indiana — John  E.  Lamb. 
Iowa — M.  B.  Hendrick. 
Kansas — W.  C.  Jones. 
Kentucky— C.  H.  Rodes. 
Louisiana — Walter  H.  Rogers. 
Maine — Geo.  E.  Hughes. 
Maryland — Frank  T.  Shaw. 
Massachusetts— John  H.  Sullivan. 
Michigan — Edwin  F.  Conely. 
Minnesota — C.  D.  O'Brien. 
Mississippi — M.  F.  Smith. 
Missouri — A.  K.  Edmunds. 
Montana — Walter  Cooper. 
Nebraska — Frank  H.  Spearman. 
Nevada— P.  C.  Webber. 
New  Hampshire — Irving  W.  Drew. 

*Contesting  delegation. 


New  Jersey — J.  F.  Carrigan. 

New  York — W.  Bourke  Cockran. 

North  Carolina— W.  P.  Roberts. 

North  Dakota—  E.  E.  Cole. 

Ohio — Albert  Zugschwerth. 

Oregon — J.  J.  Daley. 

Pennsylvania — Harry  A.  Hall. 

Rhode  Island — John  S.  Parker. 

South  Carolina — J.  L.  Irby. 

South  Dakota— T).  W.  Flick. 

Tennessee — J.  C.  Bradford. 

Texas— D.  C.  Giddings. 

Vermont — H.  E.  Folsom. 

Virginia — W.  R.  McKenney. 

Washington — W.  H.  Dumphy. 

West  Virginia — John  W.  St.  Clair. 

Wisconsin — Edw.  S.  Bragg. 

Wyoming — Nat.  Baker. 

Alaska — A.  K.  Delaney. 

Arizona—  A.  G.  Oliver. 

District  of  Columbia — James  L.  Norris. 

New  Mexico — Felix  Martinez. 

Oklahoma — John  I.  Levey. 

Utah—*  \  Henry  P'  Henderson- 
I  O.  W.  Powers. 

Indian  Territory — S.  E.  Jackson. 


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COMMITTEE  ON  PERMANENT  ORGANIZATION. 


Alabama — Geo.  P.  Harrison. 
Arkansas — S.  W.  Fordyce. 
California — L.  W.  Buck. 
Colorado — James  B.  Orman. 
Connecticut — E.  C.  Benedict. 
Delaware — R.  R.  Kenney. 
Florida—}.  S.  White. 
Georgia — Wrn.  Clifton. 
Idaho — J.  M.  Bennett. 
Illinois — Fred.  H.  Winston. 
Indiana — Hugh  Dougherty. 
Iowa — N.  C.  Ridenour. 
Kansas — Thomas  G.  Fitch. 
Kentucky — John  B.  Castleman. 
Louisiana — E.  Howard  McCaleb. 
Maine — Chas.  B.  Morton. 
Maryland — J.  Freeman  Rasin. 
Massachusetts — John   H.    McDonough. 
Michigan — Thos.  McNiff. 
Minnesota — Alex.  McKinnon. 
Mississippi — F.  K.  Winchester. 
Missouri — W.  H.  Phelps. 
Montana — Frank  G.  Higgins. 
Nebraska — Robert  Clegg. 
Nevada — P.  J.  Dunne. 
New  Hampshire — Albert  N.  Flinn. 


New  Jersey — James  Smith,  Jr. 
New  York—Wm.  C.  DeWitt. 
North  Carolina— W.  H.  Williams. 
North  Dakota—].  F.  O'Brien. 
Ohio— C.  N.  Haskell. 
Oregon — T.  G.  Reames. 
Pennsylvania — A.  A.  Plummer. 
Rhode  Island — Wm.  B.  Nichols. 
South  Carolina — J.  E.  Tindall. 
South  Dakota — John  A.  Bowler. 
Tennessee — D.  D.  Anderson. 
Texas — J.  O.  Nicholson. 
Vermont — J.  H.  Donnelly. 
Virginia — C.  V.  Meredith. 
Washington — F.  P.  Hogan. 
West  Virginia — John  II.  Russell. 
Wisconsin — John  Ringle. 
Wyoming — Douglas  A.  Preston. 
Alaska — James  Sheakley. 
Arizona — M.  J.  Nugent. 
District  of  Columbia — J.  Fred  Kelley. 
New  Mexico — Bernard  Seligman. 
Oklahoma— ( Not  reported). 

Utah-*  \  J°hn  T"  Caine' 
I  T.  J.  Kiesel. 

Indian  Territory — W.  E.  Jackson. 


COMMITTEE    ON    RULES. 


Alabama — Thos.  R.  Roulhas. 
Arkansas — J.  C.  Hawthorn. 
California — Thomas  F.  Barry. 
Colorado — D.  C.  Donovan. 
Connecticut — Robt.  J.  Vance. 
Delaware — W.  L.  Sirman. 
Florida — C.  E.  Garner. 
Georgia — F.  C.  Foster. 
Idaho — J.  G.  Brown. 
Illinois — W.  E.  Murphy. 
•  Indiana — Wm.  E.  English. 
Iowa — David  J.  Argus. 
Kansas — Tully  Scott. 
Kentucky — W.  B.  Holdeman. 
Louisiana — H.  W.  Ogden. 
Maine — Cleveland  C.  Homer. 
Maryland — John  I.  Wirt. 

*Contesting  delegation. 


Massachusetts — Edward  Avery. 
Michigan — Geo.  M.  Kinsbury. 
Minnesota — M.   Mullen. 
Mississippi — R.  H.  Henry. 
Missouri — Martin  L.  Clardy. 
Montana — Allen  Joyes. 
Nebraska — J.  F.  Crocker. 
Nevada— C.  W.  Hinchcliff.  . 
New  Hampshire — Geo.  B.  Chandler. 
New  Jersey — John  H.  Scudder. 
New  York — George  Raints. 
North  Carolina — W.  J.  Green. 
North  Dakota— W.  N.  Roach. 
Ohio — H.  S.  Chapman. 
Oregon— H.  C.  Grady. 
Pennsylvania — Geo.  A.  Jenks. 
Rhode  Island — Amos  J.  Dawley/ Jr. 


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South  Carolina — J.  G.  Evans. 
South  Dakota— P.  F.  Wickham. 
Tennessee — Wm.  Sandford. 
Texas— Scott  Field. 
Vermont — John  Robinson. 
Virginia — John  F.  Ryan. 
Washington — M.  J.  Maloney. 
West  Virginia— John  H.  Robinson. 
Wisconsin — H.  J.  Galliger. 


V 

Wyoming—  John  Harper. 

Alaska — James  Sheakley. 

Arizona — A.  C.  Baker. 

District  of  Columbia — W.  H.  Manogue. 

New  Mexico — E.  V.  Chavez. 

Oklahoma — (Not  reported). 

Utah—*  \  J°hn  T>  Caine" 
1  O.  W.  Powers. 

Indian  Territoiy — S.  E.  Jackson. 


COMMITTEE  ON  RESOLUTIONS. 


Alabama — A.  G.  Smith. 
Arkansas — H.  G.  Bunn. 
California — S.  L.  Thompson. 
Colorado — Thomas  M.  Patterson. 
Connecticut — A.  P.  Hyde. 
Delaware — Thos.  F.  Bayard. 
Florida — D.  L.  Gaulden. 
Georgia — L.  F.  Garrard. 
Idaho — G.  V.  Bryan. 
Illinois — Clayton  E.  Crafts. 
Indiana — Chas.  L.  Jewett. 
Iowa — N.  B.  Holbrook. 
Kansas — Thos.  P.  Fenlon. 
Kentucky — Jas.  A.  McKenzie. 
Louisiana — Frank  C.  Zacharie. 
Maine — Joseph  P.  Bass. 
Maryland — Chas.  J.  M.  Gwynn. 
Massachusetts — John  E.  Russell. 
Michigan—  Edwin  F.  Uhl. 
Minnesota — Lewis  Baker. 
Mississippi — H.  M.  Street. 
Missouri— -C.  H.  Jones. 
Montana — Allen  Joyes. 
Nebraska — N.  S.  Harwood. 
Nevada— R.  M.  Clarke. 
New  Hampshire — Harry  Bingham. 


New  Jersey — J.  R.  McPherson. 

New  York — Roswell  P.  Flower. 

North  Carolina—?.  H.  Busbee. 

North  Dakota— W.  E.  Purcell. 

Ohio — Lawrence  T.  Neal. 

Oregon — F.  V.  Holman. 

Pennsylvania — Geo.  A.  Ross. 

Rhode  Island — Hugh  J.  Carroll. 

South  Carolina — W.  J.  Talbert. 

South  Dakota— W.  R.  Steele. 

Tennessee — J    D.  C.  Atkins. 

Texas — Seth  Shepard. 

Vermont — H.  F.  Brigham. 

Virginia — John  W.  Daniel. 

Washington — J.  A.  Munday. 

West  Virginia — J.  B.  Taney. 

Wisconsin — Wm.  F.  Vilas. 

Wyoming — Geo.  T.  Beck. 

Alaska — James  Sheakley. 

Arizona — L.  C.  Hughes. 

District  of  Columbia — Henry  E.  Davis. 

New  Mexico — Idus  L.  Fielder. 

Oklahoma — H.  A.  Hasken. 

Utah*  \  John  T'  Caine< 
1  O.  W.  Powers. 

Indian  Territory — W.  C.  Jackson. 


MR.  BELL  :     The  Territory  of  Utah  sends  a  contesting  delegation. 
THE  CHAIR  :     Let  both  go  to  the  Committee  of  Credentials. 
THE  SECRETARY  :     These  Committees  will  meet  in  the  ante-rooms 
of  this  building  immediately  after  the  adjournment. 
MR.  W.  E.  ENGLISH  :     Where  are  the  ante-rooms  ? 
THE  SECRETARY  :     In  the  committee  rooms  around  the  building. 
A  DELEGATE  :     Why  didn't  you  say  so  ? 


"Contesting  delegation. 
3 


34  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  W.  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana :  Mr.  President,  I  observe  that 
there  is  a  large  number  of  unoccupied  seats  in  the  building,  and  in 
behalf  of  the  Indiana  delegation  I  desire  to  offer  a  resolution. 

The  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  English  was  as  follows  : 

Resolved,  That  the  officers  of  this  Convention  be  directed  to 
admit  all  ex-soldiers  of  the  late  war  to  the  unoccupied  seats  in  the 
galleries  during  the  sessions  of  this  Convention. 

MR.  WILLIAM  A.  COLLIER,  of  Tennessee  :  Mr.  President,  I  am 
informed  that  there  are  now  at  the  doors  of  this  wigwam  25,000 
Democrats,  gathered  here  from  all  parts  of  this  country,  who  desire 
seats  in  this  hall,  while  there  are  more  vacant  seats  here  than  there 
have  ever  been  in  any  Democratic  Convention.  I  desire  to  move 
that  the  officers  of  this  Convention  and  the  National  Executive 
Committee  be  instructed  to  admit  Democrats  to  these  unoccupied 
seats  until  they  are  filled,  and  that  no  Democrat  shall  be  compelled 
to  knock  in  vain  at  the  door  of  any  Democratic  Convention  for 
admission. 

MR.  BRONSTON,  of  Kentucky,  moved  to  refer  the  resolution  to 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions  and  the  motion  was  adopted. 

MR.  F.  V.  HOLMAN,  of  Oregon  :  Mr.  President,  the  Republicans 
have  had  a  majority  in  the  State  of  Oregon  for  a  number  of  years 
between  7,000  and  8,000.  This  spring  has  witnessed  a  great  change, 
culminating  in  the  June  election  ;  that  Republican  majority  has  been 
reduced  from  8,000  to  a  plurality  which  is  only  3,000  less  than  a 
majority.  I  come  from  the  city  of  Portland,  the  strongest  Republi- 
can city  on  the  Pacific  coast,  whose  ordinary  Republican  majority 
is  2,000.  Yesterday  they  had  a  city  election  there.  I  hold  in  my 
hand  two  telegrams  which  announce  the  glad  news  that  the  Repub- 
licans in  Portland,  Oregon,  have  been  defeated  by  1,000  majority, 
and  that  Portland  is  a  Democratic  city. 

MR.  J.  W.  ORR,  of  Kansas :  Mr.  President,  I  move  that  all  of 
the  organized  visiting  clubs  to  this  Convention  be  permitted  to 
occupy  the  vacant  seats  in  this  hall. 

MR.  BRONSTON,  of  Kentucky  :  I  move  you,  sir,  that  the  resolu- 
tion be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions.  There  are  many 
good  Democrats  here  who  do  not  belong  to  any  organized  clubs. 

THE  CHAIR  :  We  will  vote  upon  the  motion  of  the  gentleman 
from  Kentucky  to  refer  the  motion  to  the  Committee  on  Resolu- 
tions. 

This  resolution  was  adopted,  and  it  was  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  35 

THE  CHAIR:  The  Alabama  delegation  requests  the  Chair  to 
announce  that  there  has  been  a  change  in  the  committee  from  that 
State,  and  that  George  P.  Harrison  is  the  member  on  Permanent 
Organization. 

MR.  BEN.  T.  CABLE,  of  Illinois  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  beg  to  offer  this 
resolution  and  move  its  adoption. 

Resolved,  That  this  Convention  tender  its  profound  sympathy  to 
that  distinguished  American,  James  G.  Blaine,  in  the  heavy  affliction 
which  has  befallen  him. 

The  resolution  as  read  was  unanimously  adopted  with 
unmistakable  indications  of  a  genuine  sympathy  for  the 
distinguished  statesman. 

MR.  COLLIER  :  I  called  your  attention  to  the  fact  that  there  are 
25,000  Democrats  outside  desiring  to  be  admitted.  I  made  a  mo- 
tion in  reference  to  them,  and  I  would  like  to  ask  what  disposition 
was  made  of  my  motion. 

THE  CHAIR  :  That  resolution  has  been  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Resolutions. 

MR.  COLLIER  :  We  have  met  here  to  nominate  the  next  President 
of  the  United  States,  and  I  desire  that  the  committee  should  be 
instructed  to  issue  tickets  to  these  Democrats  until  every  vacant 
seat  in  this  hall  is  filled  with  a  Democrat. 

THE  CHAIR  :  That  whole  matter  has  been  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Resolutions. 

MR.  E.  C.  SWETT,  of  Maine  :  Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  of 
the  Convention : — In  behalf  of  the  Maine  delegation,  and  in  behalf  of 
the  people  of  Maine,  irrespective  of  party  predilections,  I  desire  to 
convey  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  our  appreciation  of 
this  grateful  expression  of  sympathy  with  our  most  distinguished 
fellow-citizen  in  this  hour  of  his  bereavement. 

The  Democrats  of  Maine,  deeper  than  those  of  any  other  northern 
State,  have  drank  of  the  cup  of  official  and  political  ostracism  which 
the  Republican  party  in  the  days  of  its  supremacy  commends  to  its 
opponents ;  but  God  forbid  that  the  Democracy  of  Maine  or  the 
Democracy  of  any  State  should  fail  of  honest  sympathy  in  the 
presence  of  that  grim  tyrant  who  wipes  out  party  lines,  "  levels  all 
rank  and  lays  the  shepherd's  crook  beside  the  sceptre." 


36  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Of  the  many  bereavements  that  have  fallen  upon  our  distinguished 
fellow  citizen  during  the  past  two  years  it  may  be  truly  said — 
"  One  woe  doth  tread  upon  another's  heel, 
So  fast  they  follow." 

And  may  such  comfort  come  to  him  and  his  as  springs  from  the 
expression  of  sympathy,  which  only  a  Democratic  National  Conven- 
tion can  tender,  from  every  section  and  from  every  State. 

This  eloquent  tribute  was  followed  by  renewed  and 
prolonged  applause. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  Secretary  will  report  a  communication  from 
the  President  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition. 

The  Secretary  then  read  the  following  communication  : 

WORLD'S  COLUMBIAN  EXPOSITION. 

« 

EXECUTIVE   DEPARTMENT. 

WM.  T.  BAKER,  President. 

HARLOW  N.  HIGINBOTHAM,  Vice-Pres. 

HOWARD  O.  EDMONDS,  Secretary. 

CHICAGO,  Jung  21,  1892. 
HON.  W.  C.  OWENS, 

Chairman  National  Democratic  Convention — 
DEAR  SIR  : 

On  behalf  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  I  take  pleasure  in  extending 
this  invitation  to  the  National  Democratic  Convention  to  visit  the  grounds  of  the 
Exposition  at  Jackson  Park.  This  great  National  enterprise  is  of  such  paramount 
interest  and  importance  to  all  the  people,  that  I  trust  their  representatives  assem- 
bled here  will  embrace  this  opportunity  to  view  the  progress  of  the  work. 

Very  respectfully, 

WM.  T.  BAKER,  President. 

GEN.  BRAGG  :  I  move  you,  sir,  that  the  Convention  do  now 
adjourn  until  to-morrow  at  12  o'clock. 

A  delegate  offered  to  amend  the  motion  by  an  ad- 
journment until  11  o'clock,  which  amendment  was 
accepted  by  Gen.  Bragg. 

The  motion  to  adjourn  was  seconded  by  Mr.  Flower,, 
of  New  York. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  37 

MR.  E.  R.  E.  KIMBROUGH,  of  Illinois:  Before  that  question  is  put 
I  desire  to  ask  information  from  the  Chair.  When  will  the  Com- 
mittees appointed  by  this*  Convention  assemble  for  the  purpose  of 
deliberation  ? 

THE  CHAIR  :  Immediately  after  adjournment,  in  the  rooms  to  the 
right  of  this  building. 

A  DELEGATE:  I  desired  to  make  the  same  inquiry,  and  it  is 
answered. 

Upon  the  motion  to  adjourn  being  put  to  the  Con- 
vention it  was  unanimously  adopted,  and  the  Conven- 
tion adjourned  to  Wednesday,  June  22,  1892,  at  11 
o'clock,  A.  M. 


38  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


SECOND   DAY. 


MORNING    SESSION. 

CHICAGO,  June  22,  1892. 

Pursuant  to  adjournment,  the  Convention  met  at  11 
o'clock  A.  M.,  Wednesday,  June  22,  18(.)2. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  by  the  Chair- 
man, Mr.  Owens,  at  11:30  A.  M.,in  the  following  words: 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Convention  will  come  to  order.  Prayer  will 
be  offered  by  Rev.  Alfred  H.  Henry,  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 

PRAYER. 

Almighty  God,  Father  of  men  and  Ruler  of  the  universe,  we  bow 
ourselves  reverently  before  Thee  and  ask  Thy  blessing  upon  this 
great  gathering,  representing  in  deliberative  assembly  every  section 
and  every  interest  of  this  national  commonwealth.  Under  Thy 
providence,  this  Convention  has  been  called  together ;  be  Thou  its 
presiding  officer.  So  order  the  deliberations  of  this  body  of  dele- 
gates that  from  out  of  the  chaos  of  man's  passions  and  ambitions 
shall  emerge  the  spirit  of  harmony  and  order.  Guide  Thou  the 
framers  of  the  party  platform  so  that  every  true  lover  of  liberty  and 
of  the  rights  of  man  shall  be  able  to  find  a  place  where  he  may 
stand  erect  for  the  principles  that  have  made  the  past  of  this  Nation 
glorious,  and  that  we  trust  shall  make  the  future  still  more  glorious. 
Guide  Thou  the  choice  of  this  Convention  so  that  its  nominees  in 
character  and  conviction  shall  represent  the  spirit  of  modern 
Democracy,  a  progressive  Democracy,  of  a  Democracy  that  is 
arrayed  on  the  side  of  the  masses  as  against  the  classes,  and  that 
strives  to  lift  from  the  shoulders  of  the  people  the  burdens  borne 
for  the  benefit  of  the  favored  few.  May  the  nominees  of  this  Con- 
vention be  in  touch  with  the  multitude  of  toilers  that  bear  the  heat 
and  burden  of  the  day,  and  lead  them  to  victory,  not  for  the  sake 
of  mere  spoil  of  office,  or  of  power,  but  for  the  sake  of  inherent 
principles.  To  this  end  grant  wisdom,  right,  conviction  and 
courage  of  their  convictions  to  Thy  servants  here  assembled,  and  to 
Thee  we  will  ascribe  praise  now  and  forever.  Amen. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  39 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  first  business  of  the  Convention  will  be  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials.  Is  that  committee  ready 
to  report? 

MR.  P.  E.  WINSTON,  of  Minnesota :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  understand 
there  are  two  ex-Senators  in  the  City  of  Chicago.  One  of  these  gen- 
tlemen has  had  the  honor  to  preside  over  two  National  Democratic 
Conventions,  and  I  move  you,  sir,  that  this  Convention  extend  the 
courtesy  of  the  platform  to  these  two  gentlemen,  and  that  they 
be  invited  to  take  seats  upon  the  platform. 

THE  CHAIR  (without  putting  the  motion)  :  The  motion  is  car- 
ried, and  the  gentlemen  will  be  invited  to  take  seats. 

MR.  WINSTON  :  I  refer  to  the  Hon.  James  R.  Doolittle  and  the 
Hon.  Lyman  Trumbull. 

THE  CHAIR  :     Is  the  Committee  on  Credentials  ready  to  report? 

MR.  F.  T.  SHAW,  of  Maryland  :  The  Committee  on  Credentials  is 
not  yet  ready  to  make  their  report. 

THE  CHAIR  :  At  what  time  may  I  state  to  the  Convention  they 
will  be  ready  ? 

MR.  SHAW  :     I  am  inclined  to  think  not  before  2  o'clock. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Committee  on  Credentials  not  being  ready  to 
report,  what  is  the  will  of  the  Convention  ? 

MR.  A.  K.  DELANEY,  of  Alaska  :  I  hold  in  my  hand,  sir,  a  memo- 
rial from  the  Democratic  Territorial  Convention  of  Alaska  to  this 
Convention.  In  submitting  it,  sir,  I  wish  to  say  that  it  is  the 
expression  of  a  pioneer  people  engaged  in  building  up  civilization 
in  the  wildest  and  most  remote  dominion  of  the  Republic.  I  beg 
to  hope,  sir,  that  it  will  receive  respectful  consideration  by  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions,  and  I  submit  it.  It  is  as  follows  : 

TO  THE 
DEMOCRATIC   NATIONAL  CONVENTION. 

The  Democracy  of  Alaska  assembled  in  Territorial  Convention 
desire  to  respectfully  call  the  attention  of  Congress,  through  the 
Democratic  National  Convention,  to  the  following  facts  concern- 
ing the  condition  of  our  people  : 

We  are  denied  representation  in  Congress. 

Our  legal  jurisprudence  is  a  distortion  and  a  deformity.  The  Act 
of  Congress  of  May  17,  1884,  known  as  the  "Organic  Act,"  by  ex- 
tending to  this  Territory  without  specification  the  general  laws  of 
the  State  of  Oregon,  many  of  which  are  unadapted  to  our  condition, 


40  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

and  totally  at  variance  with  our  necessities,  has  bequeathed  to  us  a 
jurisprudence  hopelessly  entailed  with  ambiguity  and  confusion. 

Our  judicial  system  is  faulty  in  that  the  powers  of  the  court  of 
final  resort  are  vested  in  a  single  judge  ;  and  it  is  insufficient  as  to 
the  number  and  jurisdiction  of  inferior  courts,  all  of  which  renders 
the  administration  of  justice  unstable,  uncertain  and  long-delayed. 

The  General  Land  Laws  of  the  United  States  by  express  provision 
are  denied  to  us. 

We  have  no  voice  in  the  management  or  control  of  the  public 
schools  in  which  our  children  are  being  educated. 

We  have  neither  local  self-government  nor  the  means  whereby  it 
may  be  established. 

Our  postal  service  is  insufficient  and  totally  inadequate  to  meet 
the  growing  wants  of  a  progressive  and  enterprising  people. 

Our  most  populous  town  is  without  government  buildings  neces- 
sary for  the  transaction  of  public  business,  and  those  in  other 
localities  are  crumbling  into  decay. 

We,  therefore,  respectfully  submit  as  American  Citizens,  that  we 
are  entitled  to  such  legislation  by  Congress  as  will  secure  to  us  the 
following  : 

First — A  delegate  in  Congress. 

Second — A  code  of  laws  adapted  to  our  condition  and  demanded 
by  our  necessities. 

Third — A  judicial  system  which  shall  provide  three  judges, 
located  at  appropriate  places  throughout  the  Territory,  who  shall 
preside  at  their  respective  trial  courts,  all  of  whom  shall  constitute 
a  court  in  bane  to  hear  and  determine  appeals  from  the  trial  court, 
from  which  court  in  bane  appeals  and  writs  of  error  may  be  taken 
to  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Ninth  Judicial 
Circuit,  as  now  provided  by  law. 

Fourth — The  extension  of  the  General  Land  Laws  of  the  United 
States  to  the  Territory,  whereby  title  may  be  acquired  to  our  agri- 
cultural, grazing  and  timber  lands,  under  such  restrictions,  however, 
as  will  preserve  from  the  grasp  of  speculators,  syndicates  and  cor- 
porations, and  secure  to  actual  and  bona  fide  settlers  and  residents 
of  the  Territory  that  heritage  of  the  people,  the  public  lands. 

Fifth — Aside  from  a  Territorial  Board  and  Superintendent  of 
Education,  having  general  supervision  of  the  public  schools  of  the 
Territory,  we  insist  that  the  immediate  management  of  such  schools, 
especially  in  the  most  populous  settlements,  should  be  placed  in  the 
hands  of  local  Trustees,  chosen  by  the  people  of  each  town  and 
village,  respectively,  and  vested  with  the  powers  usually  exercised 
by  similar  boards  in  the  States  and  other  Territories  of  the  Union. 

Sixth — Provision  for  the  establishment  of  municipal  government 
by  the  people  of  such  towns  and  villages  as  may  desire  it. 

Seventh — The  establishment  of  a  weekly  mail  service  between 
Alaska  and  Puget  Sound. 

Eighth — A  reasonable  appropriation  for  government  buildings 
at  Juneau,  and  for  the  repair  for  such  buildings  at  Sitka  and  Wrangel. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  41 

Deeply  conscious  of  the  justice  of  our  cause,  and  believing  in  the 
wisdom  and  patriotism  of  the  Democracy,  we  ask  the  National 
Democratic  Convention  to  voice  this,  the  appeal  of  a  pioneer 
people  engaged  in  building  up  civilization  in  the  wildest  and  most 
remote  dominion  of  the  Republic. 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  will  go  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions.  What 
is  the  pleasure  of  the  Convention?  No  business  is  in  order  until 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  is  presented. 

MR.  C.  J.  BRONSTON,  of  Kentucky  :  I  move  that  you  appoint  a 
committee  of  two  to  wait  upon  the  Committee  on  Credentials,  which 
I  understand  is  now  in  session,  and  ascertain  from  them  at  what 
hour  this  Convention  can  expect  a  report. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  gentleman  from  Kentucky,  Mr.  Bronston, 
moves  that  a  committee  of  two  be  appointed  to  wait  upon  the  Com- 
mittee on  Credentials,  and  ask  when  in  all  probability  we  may 
expect  a  report. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  appoint  on  that  committee  Mr. 
Bronston,  of  Kentucky,  and  Mr.  English,  of  Indiana. 

MR.  S.  N.  FOSTER,  of  Indiana :  Mr.  Chairman,  Mr.  English  is 
not  in  the  delegation.^ 

THE  CHAIR  :  Will  you  suggest  the  name  of  some  gentleman  in 
the  delegation  ? 

MR.  BRONSTON  :     I  suggest  the  name  of  Judge  Charles  Pollard. 

MR.  L.  A.  JOHNSON,  of  Ohio  :  I  move  you,  Mr.  Chairman,  that 
this  Convention  invite  the  Hon.  Roger  Q.  Mills,  Senator  from 
Texas,  to  address  the  Convention. 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  is  moved  by  Mr.  Johnson,  of  Ohio,  that  the 
Senator  from  Texas,  the  Hon.  Roger  Q.  Mills,  be  invited  to  address 
this  Convention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  will  appoint  Mr.  Johnson,  of  Ohio,  and  Mr. 
Goodman,  of  Missouri,  to  escort  Mr.  Mills  to  the  platform. 

MR.  E.  W.  PETTUS,  of  Alabama  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  have  here  a 
resolution,  and  I  ask  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions. 

It  was  so  referred  without  reading  under  the  rule. 

MR.  JOHNSON  :  The  committee  report  that  Mr.  Mills  was  taken 
sick,  and  had  to  go  to  his  room. 


42  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

THE  CHAIR:  The  committee  oppointed  to  wait  upon  Senator 
Mills,  from  Texas,  and  ask  him  to  address  this  Convention,  report 
that  that  gentleman  is  too  ill,  and  has  been  compelled  to  leave  the 
hall  and  go  to  his  hotel. 

MR.  JOHN  V.  SHEEHAN,  of  Michigan  :  I  move  you  that  the  hon- 
orable Senator  from  Illinois,  Senator  Palmer,  be  asked  to  address 
this  Convention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  appoint  the  gentleman  from  Michi- 
gan, Mr.  Sheehan,  and  Mr.  Jackson,  of  Iowa,  to  present  the  request 
of  this  Convention  to  Senator  Palmer,  and  escort  him  to  the  speak- 
er's stand. 

Senator  Palmer  having  been  escorted  to  the  platform, 
the  Chairman  said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  need  not  intro- 
duce to  you  this  battle-scarred  veteran  of  the  Democracy.  You  all 
know  Senator  Palmer.  He  will  speak  for  himself. 

ADDRESS    OF    SENATOR   PALMER. 

GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  CONVENTION  :  I  find  an  honor  thrust  upon 
me  very  suddenly  after  coming^into  this  great  body.  I  think  I  am 
hardly  treated  with  fairness.  I  have  not  had  an  opportunity  of 
estimating  this  marvelous  assembly  of  Democrats.  Some  years  ago 
I  was  speaking  in  southern  Illinois,  at  the  top  of  what  is  very  rare  in 
that  State,  a  high  hill ;  some  men  sat  upon  the  fence  a  hundred  yards 
from  me.  I  said,  "Come  up  here"  ;  they  said,  "I  won't."  Said  I : 
"You  will  have  to  leave  this  township,  or  you  will  hear  this  speech 
to-night."  They  made  up  their  minds  that  wherever  they  might  go 
my  voice  would  follow  them,  and  they  surrendered. 

Yet  I  am  impressed  with  this  marvelous  assemblage.  I  am  more 
impressed  with  its  marvelous  and  most  important  mission.  The 
great  fact  is  apparent  to  me  of  the  representatives  of  the  great 
Democratic  party  assembled  in  National  Convention  to  select  lead- 
ers in  the  contest  which  is  before  us.  I  think  I  have  a  right,  point- 
ing to  my  locks  to-day,  to  speak  to  this  assembly  as  one  having 
experience  at  least,  and  I  come  urging  you — I  need  not  urge  you  to 
be  patriotic  ;  that  is  an  instinct  of  Democratic  hearts — I  urge  you 
to  the  adoption  of  every  expedient  to  secure  harmony  in  our  ranks, 
because  there  lies  before  us  one  of  the  most  important  political 
contests  in  which  the  Democracy  of  the  country  has  been  engaged 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  The  great  crucial  contest  lies  just 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  43 

before  us,  and  unity  therefore  is  essential.  Every  Democrat  should 
forget  every  subject  of  controversy.  We  should  be  brothers,  actu- 
ated by  a  common  motive,  pledged  to  a  common  purpose,  and 
engaged  in  a  common,  earnest  and  patriotic  endeavor. 

The  welfare  of  the  country  is  in  your  keeping.  The  great  work 
of  restoring  the  constitutional  liberty  of  the  country  has  devolved 
upon  you.  It  is  your  work.  Shall  we  allow  any  paltry  subject  of 
dispute,  any  matter  of  a  personal  character,  to  interpose  when  our 
country  calls  upon  us  in  trumpet  tones  :  "Come  up  to  the  work." 
Shall  we  do  it  ?  Let  us  be  one — one  in  spirit,  one  in  pui^iose,  and 
let  us  be  one  in  the  great  battle.  Let  there  be  no  sulkers,  no  ser- 
pents in  the  camp.  Let  us  all  work  for  the  accomplishment  of  this 
.great  purpose. 

I  cannot  afford  to  take  your  time  now.  I  expect  a  harmonious 
result.  The  names  that  will  be  presented  to  you  will  be  the  names 
of  patriotic  men.  Choose  from  among  them  him  that  shall  bear 
the  banner  aloft.  You  cannot  make  a  mistake.  Get  a  fair,  un- 
swerving, unalterable  Democrat — a  Democrat  that  is  in  earnest,  and 
put  the  flag  in  his  hands  and  follow  him. 

Let  me  tell  you  that  if  the  Democratic  party  and  the  country  are 
deceived  in  this  contest,  it  is  not  the  fault  of  the  Republicans.  At 
Minneapolis  they  flung  their  banner  to  the  breeze,  and  inscribed  upon 
it,  in  bold  terms,  all  that  is  odious  in  Republicanism.  They  have 
written  upon  its  face  a  menace  to  the  peace  of  the  country,  in  a  new 
force  bill.  As  sure  as  Benjamin  Harrison  is  elected,  and  the  next 
Congress  is  Republican,  we  will  have  a  force  bill  such  as  the  ingen- 
uity of  John  I.  Davenport  or  the  devil  may  suggest. 

It  is  due  to  the  Minneapolis  Convention  to  admit  that  they  have 
not  attempted  to  deceive  the  country  on  the  point.  They  declare 
their  purpose,  and  if  they  succeed  we  shall  have  no  right  to  com- 
plain. They  have  told  you  what  they  mean  to  do.  If  we  are 
prepared  to  pass  under  the  yoke  we  are  well  warned;  and  after  the 
election,  if  we  are  beaten,  we  shall  have  no  right  to  complain.  They 
have  added  to  the  tariff  more  McKinleyism  than  we  have  had 
before.  The  country  is  to  be  walled  round  by  what  is  called  pro- 
tection. This  great  giant  republic,  with  its  65,000,000  of  inhabitants, 
with  resources  unsurpassed  anywhere  on  earth,  is  to  be  fettered. 
Its  wings  are  to  be  clipped,  if  I  may  use  that  expression.  We  are 
forbidden,  our  farmers  are  forbidden  to  find  a  market ;  they  must 
toil  for  the  trusts  and  monopolies.  They  have  warned  us.  If  we 
submit  to  it,  if  the  country  submits,  we  have  no  right  to  complain. 


44  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  you  want  to  go  to  work.  You 
want  to  deliberate.  You  owe  it  to  us  to  arm  the  country  for  this 
great  contest ;  you  owe  it  to  us  to  give  us  a  platform  ;  a  platform 
plain  and  clear — no  juggling  of  words  ;  let  us  have  no  trouble 
about  interpretation.  Write  the  platform  on  your  banner  that 
every  man  may  read  and  understand.  After  the  nominations  are 
made  let  us  go  to  work.  We  expect  these  Illinois  men  to  work  as 
they  never  have  worked  before.  I  remember  the  time  when  I  saw 
the  prairie  fires  over  one  whole  State.  I  want  to  see  in  Illinois  a 
fire  of  fervent  patriotism  that  will  consume  everything  before  it. 
That  is  how  we  are  going  to  work  in  Illinois. 

We  only  ask  you  to  give  us  good  candidates,  and  our  platform 
can't  be  bad  because  it  must  be  Democratic.  Blow  the  trumpet  and 
Illinois  will  rally,  will  come  as  one  man  and  will  fight  this  great 
battle,  and  I  shall  expect  to  see  in  November  that  Illinois  has 
elected  our  admirable  State  ticket  and  has  carried  the  State  for  the 
Democratic  electoral  ticket.  We  do  not  intend  to  burn  Chicago, 
but  we  will  paint  it  amazingly  red. 

MR.  G.  B.  CHAPMAN,  of  Ohio :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  you,  sir, 
that  John  R.  Fellows,  of  New  York,  be  invited  to  address  this  Con- 
vention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  gentleman  from  Ohio,  Mr.  Chapman,  is 
appointed  a  committee  to  await  upon  Mr.  Fellows. 

Mr.  Fellows  arose  in  his  seat,  and  the  Chair  said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :     Will  the  gentleman  come  to  the  platform  ? 

MR.  FELLOWS  :  (Making  a  gesture  of  dissent,)  Mr.  Chairman, 
I  am  a  delegate  in  this  Convention.  At  the  proper  time,  when  it 
shall  be  in  place  for  delegates  to  express  their  sentiments  upon  this 
floor,  it  maybe  my  privilege  to  have  something  to  say  to  the  Con- 
vention. That  time  has  not  yet  arrived,  and  I  recognize  that  with 
the  great  number  of  distinguished  gentlemen  whose  names  and 
deeds  are  so  well  known  to  the  Democracy  present  in  this  room, 
who  are  not  wearing  the  badges  of  delegates,  it  would  be  improper 
for  one  who  occupies  that  position  now  to  claim  the  attention  of  the 
Convention. 

MR.  BRONSTON,  of  Kentucky  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  informed 
that  the  Committee  on  Credentials  is  now  ready  to  report,  through 
its  Chairman,  John  E.  Lamb,  of  Indiana. 

MR.  JOHN  E.  LAMB,  of  Indiana.  The  Committee  on  Credentials 
is  now  ready  to  report. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  45 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Convention  is  ready  to  receive  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

MR.  LAMB  :  I  am  directed  by  the  Committee  on  Credentials  to 
make  the  following  unanimous  report : 

REPORT    OF   THE    COMMITTEE    ON    CREDENTIALS. 

In  the  contest  from  the  State  of  Alabama,  the  regular  delegation, 
as  recommended  by  the  National  Democratic  Committee,  is  seated 
and  is  given  the  right  to  vote ;  while  the  contesting  delegation  is 
given  seats  upon  the  floor  of  this  Convention.  In  the  twenty-third 
and  twenty-fifth  districts  of  Pennsylvania  the  regular  delegates,  as 
recommended  by  the  National  Committee,  are  given  seats  and  votes 
upon  the  floor.  In  the  State  of  Ohio,  first  district,  the  regular 
delegate,  Mr.  Louis  G.  Barnard,  is  seated.  In  the  Territory  of  Utah 
the  regular  delegation,  recommended  by  the  National  Committee, 
Henry  B.  Henderson  and  John  T.  Caine,  are  given  seats  and  votes 
upon  the  floor.  In  the  Indian  Territory,  the  members  of  both  dele- 
gations, Messrs.  S.  E.  Jackson,  W.  C.  Jackson,  T.  B.  Bell  and  A.  R. 
Sneed,  are  given  seats,  and  one-half  vote  each.  In  the  District  of 
Columbia,  Messrs.  James  L.  Norris  and  Henry  E.  Davis  are  given 
seats  and  votes  upon  the  floor.  In  the  Territories  of  New  Mexico  and 
Arizona,  it  was  recommended  by  the  National  Committee  that  each 
be  given  six  seats  upon  the  floor  of  this  Convention.  In  view  of  the 
fact  that  these  two  Territories  have  been  debarred  from  the  sister- 
hood of  States  in  this  Union  upon  the  sole  ground  that  they  were 
Democratic,  and  in  view  of  the  further  fact  that  a  Democratic 
House  has  already  passed  an  enabling  act  to  make  them  States  of 
this  Union,  your  committee  unanimously  adopts  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  National  Committee  and  submits  them  for  the  approval 
of  this  Convention. 

MR.  LAMB  :  I  move  the  adoption  of  the  report  of  the  Committee. 
THE  CHAIR  :  The  question  is  upon  th'e  adoption  of  the  report. 
The  report  was  adopted. 

The  following  list  of  delegates  from  the  different  States 
and  Territories  are  entitled  to  seats  in  this  Convention  as 
delegates,  as  reported  by  the  Committee  on  Credentials: 


46 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


LIST    OF    DELEGATES. 


ALABAMA. 


Gen.  E.  W.  Pettus. 
Rufus  N.  Rhodes. 
District. 
1st Joseph  C.  Rich. 

Julian  A.  Walters. 
2nd W.  F.  Vandiver. 

C.  F.  Rankin. 
3rd    A.  H.  Merrill. 

Geo.  P.  Harrison. 
4th J.  H.  King. 

M.  L.  Wood. 
5th Ben.  Fitzpatrick. 

Shirley  Bragg. 


AT  LARGE. 


John  B.  Knox. 
A.  G.  Smith. 


District. 
6th.. 


L.  B.  Musgrove. 

S.  C.  M.  Amason. 

7th H.  M.  Howard. 

A.  L.  Woodliff. 

8th R.  W.  Lowe. 

T.  R.  Roulhac. 

9th -A.  O.  Lane. 

Thomas  M.  Walthall. 


ARKANSAS. 


AT  LARGE. 


John  H.  Rogers. 
S.  W.  Fordyce. 
District. 

1st Julius  Lesser. 

J.  C.  Hawthorne. 

2nd J.  B.  Speers. 

Wm.  J.  Little. 

3rd J.  S.  Steele. 

W.  H.  Arnold. 


H.  G.  Bunn. 
John  G.  Fletcher. 
District. 

4th Thos.  B.  Martin. 

W.  J.  Stowers. 

5th Jos.  Frauenthal. 

B.  R.  Davidson. 

6th J.  C.  South. 

J.  C.  Goodrum,  Sr. 


CALIFORNIA. 


W.  W.  Foote. 
S.  M.  White. 
District. 
1st C.  W.  Taylor. 

T.  L.  Thompson. 
2nd Russ  Stephens. 

W.  S.  McGee. 
3rd F.  J.  Moffitt. 

L.  W.  Buck. 
4th J.  F.  Sullivan. 

Jos.   Clark. 


AT  LARGE. 


J.  V.  Coleman. 
A.  B.  Butler. 
District. 

5th L.  A.  Whitehurst. 

T.  F.  Barry. 

6th J.  D.  Carr. 

Geo.  S.  Patton. 

7th H.  W.  Patton. 

W.  W.  Phillips. 


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COLORADO. 


AT  LARGE. 


T.  M.  Patterson. 

Theodore  J.  O'  Donnell. 
District. 

1st Frank  Adams. 

Wm.  Bailey. 

CONNECTICUT. 


Dr.  Henry  Paul. 

J.  B.  Orman. 
District. 

2nd Martin  Currigan. 

C.  Donovan. 


AT  LARGE. 


Alvan  P.  Hyde. 
Carlos  French. 
District. 

1st Robert  J.  Vance. 

Edwin  C.  Pinney. 

2nd Norris  G.  Osborn. 

Clinton  B.  Davis. 


James  B.  Shannon. 
E.  C.  Benedict. 


District. 
3rd.. 


Cyrus  G.  Beckwith. 

Joel  W.  Webb. 

4th Robert  L.  Clarkson. 

Sidney  P.  Ensign. 


Thos.  F.  Bayard. 
Hiram  R.  Borie. 
R.  R.  Kenney. 


F.  Adams. 
J.  E.  Grady. 
H.  T.  Likes. 
J.  S.  White. 
F.  A.  Bailey. 
C.  E.  Garner. 
N.  P.  Bishoff. 
W.  S.  Jones. 


DELAWARE. 

AT  LARGE. 


FLORIDA. 


AT  LARGE. 


GEORGIA. 


James  M.  Smith. 
F.  H.  Richardson. 
District. 
1st George  A.  Mercer. 

W.  M.  Clifton. 
2nd J.  M.  Griggs. 

John  Triplet!. 
3rd Bascom  Myrick. 

C.  C.  Duncan. 
4th L.  F.  Garrard. 

L.  P.  Mandel. 
5th Milton  A.  Candler. 

George  Hillyer. 
6th Fred  Dismuke. 

Richard  Johnston. 


AT  LARGE. 


District. 
7th  . 


Robert  J.  Reynolds. 
John  W.  Causey. 
W.  L.  Sirman. 


John  F.  Dunn. 
W.  D.  Chipley. 

A.  B.  Hawkins. 
T.  A.  Jennings. 
D.  L.  Gaulden. 

B.  Genevar. 
Alex.  St.  Clair. 
S.  M.  Sparkman. 


F.  K.  Dubignon. 
Dupont  Guerry. 


......  W.  W.  Vandivere. 

I.  W.  Glover. 
8th W.  B.  Burnett. 

F.  C.  Foster. 
9th J.  B.  Brown. 

Lewis  Davis. 
10th A.  W.  Barrett. 

W.  O.  Mitchell, 
llth Walter  B.   McArthur. 

F.  W.  Lamb. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


James  H.  Hawley. 
R.  C.  Johnson. 
John  M.  Burke. 


IDAHO. 

AT   LARGE. 


ILLINOIS. 


John  G.  Brown. 
G.  V.  Bryan. 
J.  M.  Bennett. 


A.  E.  Stevenson. 
A.  W.  Green. 
Clayton  E.  Crafts. 
Ben.  T.  Cable. 
District. 
1st John  P.  Hopkins. 

Michael  Mclnerney. 
2nd L.  W.  Kadlec. 

Wm.  H.  Joyce. 
3rd Roger  C.  Sullivan. 

John  J.  Gaynor. 
4th Frederick  Griesheimer 

F.  H.  Winston. 
5th John  C.  Donnelly. 

Chas.  A.  Goodwin. 
6th E.  R.  Carr. 

J.  Stanley  Brown. 
7th Chas.  K.  Ladd. 

Sherwood  Dixon. 
8th R.  L.  Allen. 

J.  H.  Eckels. 
9th Lyon  Karr. 

D.  C.  Taylor. 
10th John  Finley. 

A.  M.  Brown. 


AT  LARGE.                E.  N.  Worthington. 
Walter  Watson. 
John  A.  King. 
Samuel  B.  Chase. 
District. 
llth Truman  Plantz. 

Guy  C.  Scott. 
12th R.  F.  Newcomb. 

Jos.  M.  Page. 
13th Frank  K.  Jones. 

James  B.  Ricks. 
14th James  S.  Ewing. 

B.  K.  Durfee. 
15th E.  R.  E.  Kimbrough. 

Thos.  B.  Carson. 
16th Adam  Rinard. 

H.  B.  Lee. 
17th Wm.  M.  Farmer. 

Thomas  M.  Thornton. 
18th C.  D.  Hoiles. 

R.  D.  W.  Holder. 
19th Silas  Cook. 

John  C.  Edwards. 
20th W.  K.  Murphy. 

George   W.   Andrews. 


INDIANA. 


AT    LARGE. 


D.  W.  Voorhees. 
Chas.  L.  Jewett. 
District. 
1st E.  P.  Richardson. 

Philip  Zoercher. 
2nd R.  C.  Houston. 

W.  A.  Cullop. 
3rd E.  G.  Niklaus. 

D.  A.  Jennings. 
4th Herman  Trichler. 

John  Beggs. 
5th O.  B.  Johnson. 

W.  S.  Sherley. 
6th Joshua  Chitwood. 

J.  H.  Smith. 
7th Alexander  Ayres. 

Will.  E.  English. 


Hugh  Dougherty. 
Samuel  E.  Morss. 


District. 
8th.. 


John  E.  Lamb. 

Samuel  T.  Catlin. 
9th James  Murdock. 

James  R.  Tyre. 
10th Charles  R.  Pollard. 

John  E.  Cass. 
llth Herman    E.   Wicking. 

Emerson   E.    McGriff. 
12th Samuel  M.  Foster. 

N.  B.  Newman. 
13th Orlando   M.    Packard. 

Harry  S.  Chester. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


49 


J.  H.  Shields. 
L.  M.  Martin. 
District. 
1st David  J.  Ayers. 

Wm.  N.  Hood. 
2nd N.  B.  Holbrook. 

Nath.  French. 
3rd O.  B.  Harriman. 

L.  W.  Gowen. 
4th R.  J.  McHugh. 

M.  B.  Hendrick. 
5th H.  J.  Stiger, 

M.  R.  Jackson. 
6th G.  B.  McFall. 

I.  L.  Patton. 


IOWA. 


AT   LARGE. 


Edward  Campbell. 
John  F.  Buncombe. 


District. 
7th  

.  .   Samuel  J.  Gilpin. 

8th  

E.  R.  Cassatt. 
.  ..N.  C.  Ridenour. 

9th  

J.  W.  Freeland. 
.  .  .Lucius  Wells. 

10th  

Frank  P.  Bradley. 
.  .  .John  McCarthy. 

llth  

F.  C.  Brown. 
.  .  .  Wm   H.  Dent, 

Parker  K.  Holbrook. 

KANSAS. 


AT   LARGE. 


Thomas  Fenlon. 
George  W.  Click. 
Tully  Scott. 
District. 

1st J.  W.  Orr. 

J.  R.  Garrett. 

2nd B.  J.   Sheridan. 

Wm.  C.  Perry. 

3rd John  A.  Eaton. 

Dr.  C.  Gilbert. 

4th Thomas  W.  Morgan. 

S.  P.  Isenhart. 


District. 
5th.. 


W.  C.  Jones. 
Thomas  Fitch. 
Wm.  Lapp. 


6th. 
7th. 


KENTUCKY. 


Henry  Watterson. 
John  B.  Castleman. 
District. 
1st T.  E.  Moss. 

Robert  Walker. 
2nd Reuben  Miller. 

Charles  Meachem. 
3rd John  S.  Rhea. 

W.  A.  Helm. 
4th B.  F.  Beard. 

B.  T.  Titsey. 
5th W.  B.  Haldeman. 

W.  J.  Abrahams. 
6th ..Dr.  J.  C.  Terrell. 

B.  F.  Harrison. 


AT  LARGE. 


...C.  B.  Gill. 

W.  H.  L.  Lepperell. 
...J.  D.  Sherrick. 

S.  P.  Reynolds. 
. .  J.  B.  McClenland. 

J.  F.  Stewart. 


James  A.  McKenzie. 
W.  C.  Owens. 


District. 
7th.. 


C.  J.  Bronston. 

William  Lindsey. 
8th C.  H.  Rodes. 

J.  II.  Sullivan. 
9th Walter  Sharp. 

J.  H.  Northrop. 
10th John  P.  Salyer. 

J.  M.  Robertson, 
llth O.  H.  Waddell. 

G.  A.  Devons. 


50 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


LOUISIANA. 

AT  LARGE. 


E.  B.  Kruttschnitt. 

F.  C.  Zacharie. 
District. 

1st Walter  H.  Rogers. 

Thomas  Duffy. 
2nd E.  Howard  McCaleb. 

A.  W.  Crandell. 
3rd H.  C.  Drew. 

Geo.  M.  Robertson. 


Nathan  Cleves. 
Daniel  J.  McGillicuddy. 
District. 

1st Jeremiah  G.  Shaw. 

Edw.  C.  Swett. 

2nd Alfred  S.  Kimball. 

George  E.  Hughes. 

MARYLAND. 


John  Fitzpatrick. 
John  C.  Bach. 
District. 

4th James  Jeffries. 

Harry  W.  Ogden. 
5th J.  L.  Dagg. 

A.  S.  Caldwell. 
6th Trios.  J.  Kernan. 

J.  T.  Young. 
MAINE. 

AT  LARGE. 

Charles  B.  Morton. 
Thomas  White. 
District. 

3rd William  R.  Hunnewell. 

Cleveland  C.  Homer. 

4th Joseph  P.  Bass. 

David  C.  Parker. 


Arthur  P.  Gorman. 
Frank  Brown. 
C.  J.  M.  Gwinn. 
Barnes  Compton. 
District.     . 

1st R.  D.  Hynson. 

L.  L.  Waters. 

2nd Murray  Vandiver. 

Frank  T.  Shaw. 

3rd Frank  A.  Furst. 

James  Bond. 


AT    LARGE. 


L.  V.  Baughman. 
John  S.  Wirl. 
George  M.  Upshur. 

District. 

4th John  Gill. 

Lloyd  Jackson. 
5th Thos.  H.  Hunt. 

J.  W.  Cox. 
6th Asa  Millison. 

Buchanan  Schley. 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

AT    LARGE. 


John  H.  Sullivan.* 
Patrick  A.  Collins. 
District. 
1st Adams  C.  Deane. 

James  J.  Curran. 
2nd Wm.  E.  Bridgman. 

Dr.  W.  E.  Mellen. 
3rd .' John  R.  Thayer. 

John  O'Gara. 
4th Robt.  M.  Burnett. 

Jas.  P.  Murphy. 
5th Peter  H.  Donohoe. 

Alexander  B.  Bruce. 

6th Thos.  A.  Devine. 

Benj.  F.  Brickett. 

*Altfcrnate  for  John  W.  Corcoran. 


John  E.  Russell. 
Albert  C.  Houghton. 
7th John  R.  Murphy. 

Henry  A.  Marks. 
8th Nathan  Matthews,  Jr. 

John  F.  O'Brien. 
9th Edward  J.  Donovan. 

James  H.  Stack. 
10th Josiah  Quincy. 

John  H.  McDonough. 
llth Patrick  Maguire. 

Jasper  N.  Keller. 
12th Edward  Avery. 

Wm.  L.  Douglas. 
13th John  W.  Coughlin. 

Henry  C.  Thatcher. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


51 


Don  M.  Dickinson. 
Edward  Ryan. 


District. 

1st Edward  F.  Conely. 

Chas.  W.  Casgrain. 
2nd John  Strong. 

J.  V.  Sheehan. 
3rd L.  N.  Burke. 

C.  F.  Cook. 
4th George  M.  Kingsbury. 

J.  G.  Miller. 
5th Henry  F.  McCormick. 

Albert  K.  Roof. 
6th Rich.  A.  Montgomery. 

Clarence  Tinker. 

MINNESOTA. 


MICHIGAN. 

AT  LARGE.. 

Spencer  O.  Fisher. 
Edwin  F.  Uhl. 
District. 

7th Charles  A.  Ward. 

Robert  Willis. 
8th John  H.  Fedewa. 

Farnham  Lyon. 
9th Thomas  McNiff. 

M.  J.  Law. 
10th Andrew  W.  Comstock. 

W.  J.  Martin, 
llth H.  B.  Hudson. 

Stiles  Kennedy. 
12th John  Power. 

Solomon  S.  Curry. 


AT   LARGE. 


Michael  Doran. 
Phil.  B.  Winston. 
District. 

1st C.  J.  Haines. 

H.  R.  Wells. 

2nd M.  Mullen. 

James  Manning. 

3rd Joseph  Roach.        . 

F.  Nicolin. 

4th C.  D.  O'Brien. 

James  S.  O'Brien. 

MISSOURI. 

AT  LARGE. 
Charles  C.  Maffitt. 
William  H.  Phelps. 
District. 
1st Ben  Eli  Guthrie. 

William  B.  Hayes. 
2nd John  L.  Mirick. 

T.  S.  Dines. 
3rd E.  S.  Garver. 

D.  C.  Allen. 
4th John  W.  Walker. 

Dr.  J.  A.  Postlewaite. 
5th William   H.   Wallace. 

John  S.  Blackwell. 
6th Wm.  Steele. 

John  D.  Allen. 
7th E.  C.  More. 

Dr.  A.  K.  Edmonds. 
8th JohnR.  Walker. 

John  B.  Wolfe. 


Lewis  Baker. 
Thomas  Wilson. 
District. 

5th Titus  Mareck. 

Chas.  M.  Foote. 

6th Theodore  Bruener. 

J.  G.  Brown. 

7th Alex.  McKinnon. 

Dennis  O'Brien. 


District. 
9th  . 


Charles  H.  Jones. 
Martin  L.  Clardy. 


M.  S.  Goodman. 

T.  F.  McDearmon. 
10th Charles  Costello. 

James  I.  Jones, 
llth Wm.  Haney. 

John  J.  Burk. 
12th Edward  Butler*. 

Dr.  F.  J.  Lutz. 
13th W.  S.  Anthony. 

F.  M.  Mansfield. 
14th Jos.  J.  Russell. 

J.  B.  Tillman. 
15th J.  G.  McGannon. 

Thomas  Connor. 


52 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


MISSISSIPPI. 


AT   LARGE. 


W.  V.  Sullivan. 
W.  H.  Sims. 

District. 

1st H.  L.  Muldrow. 

Wm.  M.  Cox. 
2nd Wm.  A.  McDonald. 

R.  T.  Fant. 
3rd Leroy  Percy. 

W.  H.  Stovall. 
4th J.  H.  Brinker. 

Percy  R.  Somerville. 


H.  M.  Street. 
Murray  F.  Smith. 

District, 

5th John  S.  Williams. 

W.  N.  King. 
6th Frank  K.  Winchester. 

F.  H.  Lewis. 
7th R.  H.  Henry. 

Chas.  A.  Gordon. 


S.  T.  Hauser. 
W.  A.  Clark. 
Timothy  E.  Collins. 


MONTANA. 


AT  LARGE. 


NEBRASKA. 


Frank  G.  Higgins. 
Walter  Cooper. 
Thomas  Joies. 


AT  LARGE. 


James  E.  Boyd. 
Tobias  Castor. 
District. 

1st '". Robert  Clegg. 

N.  S.  Harwood. 

2nd Charles  Ogden. 

John  A.  Creighton. 

3rd John  Bern. 

F.  J.  Hale. 


Milton  Doolittle. 
W.  H.  Thompson. 
District. 

4th Daniel  W.  Cook. 

Matt.  Miller. 

5th R.  A.  Batty. 

Frank  H.  Spearman. 

6th John  F.  Crocker. 

James  C.  Dahlman. 


NEVADA. 

AT  LARGE. 

Robert  P.  Keating.* 
R.  M.  Clarke. 
J.  H.  McMillan. 
*  Represented  by  P.  J.  Dunne. 

NEW    HAMPSHIRE. 


C.  W.  Hinchcliff. 
E.  P.  Hardesty. 
P.  C.  Webber. 


AT  LARGE. 


Harry  Bingham. 

Frank  Jones. 
District. 

1st Henry  R.  Parker. 

Dennis  F.  O'Conner. 


Alvah  W.  Sulloway. 

George  B.  Chandler. 
District. 

2nd Albert  N.  Flinn. 

Irving  W.  Drew 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


58 


.      NEW    JERSEY. 

AT  LARGE. 

John    R.  McPherson. 
James  Smith,  Jr. 
District.  District. 

1st W.  J.  Thompson.  5th. 

George  H.  Barker. 

2nd John  H.  Scudder. 

T.  E.  Prickett. 

8rdi '. .  .Millard  F.  Ross. 

John  Hone,  Jr. 

4ih Johnson  Cornish. 

J.  N.  Pidcock. 


Miles  Ross. 
Leon  Abbett. 


Roswell  P.  Flower. 
Edward  Murphy,  Jr. 
District. 
1st. SolomanS.  Townsend. 

Edward  Hawkins. 
2nd John  Delmar. 

Michael  J.  Coffey. 
3rd James  W.  Ridgway. 

Wm.  C.  DeWitt. 
4th James  Kane. 

Robert  Black. 
5th     Patrick  H.  McCurren. 

J.  P.  Adams. 
6th Benjamin  Wood. 

John  R.  Fellows. 
7th Robert  B.  Roosevelt. 

John  M.  Bruno. 
8th DeWitt  Leventritt. 

John  Fox. . 
9th Amos  J.  Cummings. 

Patrick  Keenan. 
10th , . .  .Richard  Croker. 

W.  Bourke  Cockran. 
llth Hugh  J.  Grant. 

Franklin  Bartlett. 
12th Perry  Belmont. 

George  Ehret. 

13th David  McClure. 

.  DeLancy  Nicoll. 
14th Francis  Larkin,  Jr. 

Henry  D.  Purroy. 
15th George  M.  Beebe. 

Henry  Bacon. 
16th. James  W.  Hinckley. 

Samuel  J.  Tilden,  Jr. 
17th J.  C.  Broadhead. 

George  W.  Youmans. 


J.  F.  Carrigan. 

Louis  Braun. 

6th ..' Gottfried  Kruger. 

John  B.  Dusenberry. 

7th Dennis  McLaughlin. 

Robert  Davis. 

8th Joseph  W.  Yates. 

Thos.  Nevins. 
NEW   YORK. 

AT  LARGE. 

Daniel  E.  Sickles. 
Henry  W.  Slocum. 
District. 
18th James  Keenan. 

Robert  W.  Hamilton. 
19th James  H.  Manning. 

Anthony  N.  Brady. 
20th '...John  Foley. 

A.  J.  Quackenbush. 
21st Henry  Griffin. 

Wm.  P.  Cantwell. 
22nd Levi  H.  Brown. 

S.  R.  Phelps. 
23rd James  L.  Dempsey. 

W.  C.  Schwaube. 
24th Albert  C.  Tennant. 

Clinton  Beckwith. 
25th.., Wm.  B.  Kirk. 

Hugh  Duffy. 
26th E.  F.  Danf orth. 

C.  E.  Remick. 
27th C,  N.  Bulger. 

Hiram  W.  Babcock. 
28th> Alexander  C.  Eustace. 

Chauncey  L.  Becker. 
29th Frank  Campbell. 

Frank  Rice. 
30th Frederick  Cook. 

George  Raines. 
31st .John  Cunneen. 

D.  J.  Bissell.     .  . 
82nd. : . Wm.  F.  Sheehan. 

Gerhart  Lang. 
33rd C.  S.  Dunckelberger. 

Matthew  Scanlon. 
34th.- James  W.  McMahon. 

Fred.  L.  Newton. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


NORTH    CAROLINA. 


AT   LARGE. 


E.  C.  Smith. 
Wharton  J.  Green. 
District, 
1st Wilson  G.  Lamb. 

W.  P.  Roberts. 
2nd Frank  W.  Barnes. 

S.  H.  Holloway. 
3rd W.  S.  Cook. 

L.  J.  Moore. 
4th F.  A.  Busbee. 

James  W.  Pou. 
5th John  W.  Graham. 

J.  L.  King. 


John  D.  Bellamy. 
Jos.  P.  Caldwell. 
District. 
6th J.  T.  LeGrand. 

£.  S.  Latimer. 
7th W.  W.  H.  Williams. 

M.  M.  Phinnix. 
8th Cyrus  W.  Watson. 

W.  L.  Scott. 
9th Kope  Elias. 

R.  M.  Furman. 


NORTH  DAKOTA. 


AT  LARGE. 


W.  N.  Roach. 
T.  F.  O'Brien. 
E.  E.  Cole. 


W.  E.  Purcell. 

A.  Blewett. 

J.  E.  Campbell. 


OHIO. 


Calvin  S.  Brice. 
James  E.  Campbell. 
District. 
1st Louis  G.  Bernard. 

Otway  J.  Cosgrove. 
2nd Michael  Devenny. 

Louis  Remelin. 
3rd Frank  Huffman. 

Peter  Schwab. 
4th George  W.  Hull. 

J.  K.  Cummings. 
5th Fred.  Lessaur. 

Chas.  K.  Haskell. 
6th R.  T.  Hough. 

M.  J.  Hutchinson. 
7th Chas.  W.  Constantine. 

F.  G.  Davis. 
8th Albert  Zugschwert. 

L.  D.  Johnson. 
9th W.  J.  Colburn. 

Wm.  Habbeler. 
10th Michael  Stanton. 

George  H.  Chapman, 
llth A.  B.  Cole. 

Jos.  D.  Huffman. 


LARGE. 

Lawrence  T.  Neal. 
Robert  Blee. 
District. 
12th James  Kilbourne. 

Daniel  Danehy. 
13th G.  G.  Engler. 

W.  A.  Schofield. 
14th Benjamin  Meyers. 

C.  E.  Critchfield. 
15th Frank  H.  Southard. 

James  T.  Kane. 
16th ^George  McKee. 

George  W.  McCook. 
17th Lewis  P.  Ohliger. 

R.  W.  Tanneyhill. 

18th W.  K.  L.  Warwick. 

-John  C.  Welty. 
19th Thos.  F.  Walsh. 

Charles  Fillius. 
20th Charles  P.  Salen. 

R.  R.  Holden. 
21st John  H.  Farley. 

T.  L.  Johnson. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 
OREGON. 


55 


Fred.  V.  Holman. 
Henry  C.  Grady. 
Henry  Blackman. 
.J.  L.  Cowan.* 


AT    LARGE. 


John  J.  Daly. 
A.  Bush. 

Samuel  F.JFlood. 
Thos.  G.  Reames. 


PENNSYLVANIA. 


AT   LARGE. 


W.  U.  Hensel. 
George  Ross. 
Charles  Robinson. 
Grant  Herring. 
District. 
1st Robert  E.  Deady. 

P.  J.  Corcoran. 
2nd John  R.  Read. 

John  J.  Molony. 
3rd Peter  Monroe. 

Thomas  J.  Ryan. 
4th Samuel  Josephs. 

Thomas  Delahanty. 
5th Cornelius  M.  Smith. 

Wm.  F.  Harrity. 
6th O.  B.  Dickinson. 

A.  M.  Holding. 
7th I.  Heston  Todd. 

R.  K.  Bachman. 
8th William  Mutchler. 

J.  Davis  Brodhead. 
9th Jeremiah  Hagenman. 

Robert  E.  Wright. 
10th John  A.  Coyle. 

William  B.  Given, 
llth Frank  J.  Fitzsimmons. 

Frank  M.  Vandling. 
12th John  T.  Lenahan. 

John  Smoulter,  Jr. 
13th M.  P.  Quinn. 

M.  T.  O'Connor. 
14th S.  P.  Light. 

Christian  Hanlen. 


Harry  Alvan  Hall. 
William  M.  Singerly. 
John  L.  McKinney. 
Henry  Meyer. 
District. 
15th George  S.  Purdy. 

Nelson  Lee. 
16th J.  Henry  Cochran. 

John  W.  Bailey. 
17th William  Krickbaum. 

Lewis  Dewart. 
18th H.  J.  McAteer. 

D.  M.  Crawford. 
19th R.  E.  Shearer. 

Horace  Keesey. 
20th John  M.  Reynolds. 

Herman  Baumer. 
21st Thomas  Lynch. 

George  A.  Jenks. 
22nd James  M.  Guffy. 

George  S.  Fleming. 
23rd Frank  C.  Osbourn. 

Herman  F.  Kunkle. 
24th S.  L.  Mestrezat. 

Dr.  T.  H.  Sharpnack. 
25th W.  B.  Clendennin. 

S.  B.  Griffith. 
26th John  C.  Brady. 

John  Fertig. 
27th A.  A.  Plumer. 

Charles  Schimmelfing. 
28th William  A.  Wallace. 

Thomas  Collins. 


*Represented  by  Dr.  Mullinix,  Alternate. 


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RHODE   ISLAND. 

AT  LARGE. 


Franklin  P.  Owen. 
Hugh  J.  Carroll. 
Francis  L.  O'Reilly. 
F.  E.  Bartlett. 


Wm.  B.  Nichols. 
John  T.  Parker. 
Amos  J.  Dawley. 
Samuel  R.  Honey. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA. 


AT  LARGE. 


B.  R.  Tillman. 

John  L.  Irby. 
District. 
1st Theodore  G.Jervey,  Jr. 

C.  M.  Efird. 
2nd. . . ; John  G.  Evans. 

•    A.  M.  Youmans. 
3rd J.  H.  McCalley. 

D.  K.  Norris. 
4th B.  F.  Perry. 

R.  W.  Harris. 


J.  William  Stokes. 
W.  J.  Talbert. 
District. 

5th T.  J.  Cunningham. 

J.  W.  Floyd. 

6th I.  E.  Tindel. 

E.  J.  Stackhouse. 

7th H.  R.  Thomas. 

Josiah  Doar. 


SOUTH  DAKOTA. 

AT  LARGE. 


District. 

1st Bartlett  Tripp. 

2nd Wm.  Van  Eps. 

3rd .A.  W.  Mullen. 

4th.,  ..P.  F.  Wickham. 


District. 

5th John  A.  Bowler. 

6th Peter  Couchman. 

?th D.  W.  Flick. 

8th..  .   Wm.  R.  Steele. 


TENNESSEE. 


AT  LARGE.    . 


James  D.  Porter.  ' 
Julius  A.  Taylor.        • 

District. 

1st John  Caldwell. 

John  T.  Essary. 
2nd Martin  L.  Ross. 

Samuel  G.  Heiskell. 
3rd George  W,  Ochs. 

Charles  H.  Carpenter. 
4th Louis  C,  Alexander. 

Elijah  G.  Tollett,  Jr. 
5th Robert  E.  L.   Mount- 
castle. 

John  C.  New. 


James  C.  Bradford. 
David  D.  Anderson. 

District. 

6th John  Overton. 

Hardin  N.  Leech. 
7th JohnT.  Allen.   . 

Jas.  A.  Cunningham. 
8th J.  D.  C.  Atkins, 

Wm.  P.  Robertson. 
9th Henry  C.  Burnett. 

Samuel  R.  Latta. 
10th Wm.  A.  Collier. 

Wm.  Sanford. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


TEXAS. 


AT  LARGE. 


John  A.  Ireland. 
H;  D.  McDonald. 


District. 

1st  

0.  T.  Holt.   - 

T.  H.  Ball. 

2nd  

J.  C.  Wootters. 

E.  S.  Hicks. 

8rd  

R.  N.  Stafford. 

J.  F.  Mitchell. 

4th  , 

Howard  Templeton 

R.  D.  Harrell. 

5th  

Yancey  Lewis. 

C.  L.  Galloway. 

6th  -. 

Byron  Drew. 

R.  E.  Prince. 

7th  

Scott-Fields. 

W.  T.  Hefley. 

District. 
8th.. 


Seth  Shephard. 

J.  W.  Throckmorton. 


..    ...T.  T.  D.  Andrews. 

L.  L.  Shields. 
9th . D.  C.  Giddins. 

John  VV.  Parker. 
10th... C.  C.  Sweney. 

W.  B.  Sayers. 
llth A.  C.  Jones. 

J.  O.  Nicholson. 
12th J.  H.  McLeary. 

Fred.  Opp. 
18th J.  J.  Taylor. 

W.  P.  Sebastian. 


VERMONT. 


Dr.  J.  D.  Harrahan. 
John  Robinson. 


AT  LARGE. 


District. 
1st.. 


..John  H.  Donnelly. 
Herbert  F.  Bringham. 


Dr.  J.  Henry  Jackson. 

Harley  E.  Folspm. 
District. 

2nd Oscar  C..  Miller.. 

Henry  E.  Fitzgerald. 


District. 
1st.. 


2nd. 
3rd. 
4th. 
5th. 


John  W.  Daniel. 
S.  Welford  Corbin. 


...Frank  Fletcher. 

Lloyd  T.  Smith. 
..W.  A.  Young. 

J.  F.  Bryant. 
..C.  V.  Meredith. 

B.  L.  Wenston. 
..W.  R.  McKenney. 

F.  E.  Buford. 
..O.  W.  Dudley. 

Wm.  Semple. 


VIRGINIA. 


AT  LARGE. 


John  Goode. 
Basil  B.  Gordon. 


District. 
6th.. 


Carter  Glass. 

Wood  Bouldin,  Jr. 
7th.;..   ... M.  L.  Watson. 

S.  V.  Southall. 
8th J.  F.  Ryan. 

J.  C.  Gibson. 
9th A.  Fulkerson. 

Henry  Stuart. 
10th M.  W.  Paxton. 

Taylor  Berry. 


WASHINGTON. 


AT  LARGE. 


John  Collins. 
Chauncey  W.  Griggs. 
Henry  J.  Snively. 
Henry  S.  Blanford. 


James.  A.  Munday. 
F.  P.  Hogan. 
Martin  J.  Maloney. 
William  H.  Dunphy. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


WEST    VIRGINIA. 


AT   LARGE. 


J.  N.  Camden. 
J.  B.  Taney. 

District. 

1st W.  Marsh  Arnold. 

John  J.  Davis. 
2nd John  A.  Robinson. 

J.  Ed.  Watson. 


B.  F.  Martin. 
J.  W.  St.  Clair. 

District. 

3rd W.  E.  Chelton. 

A.  T.  Mathews. 
4th John  Hove  Russell. 

D.  T.  B.  Carpenter. 


WISCONSIN. 


AT   LARGE. 


W.  F.  Vilas. 
Edward  S.  Bragg. 
District. 
1st W.  W.  Strong. 

H.  J.  Gallagher. 
2nd S.  W.  Lamoreux. 

Carl  Feld. 
3rd A.  H.  Krouskopf. 

George  W.  Bishop. 
4th J.  G.  Donnelly. 

W.  A.  Walker. 
5th Frank  Geele. 

C.  A.  Koenitzer. 


District. 
6th.. 


E.  C.  Wall. 
John  H.  Knight. 


J.  W.  Hume. 

A.  J.  Schmitz. 
7th Ira  A.  Hill. 

William  Carson. 
8th Rush  Winslow. 

L.  M.  Nash. 
9th John  Ringle. 

Joseph  Fisher. 
10th S.  C.  Johnson. 

James  Barden. 


WYOMING. 

AT    LARGE. 


Colin  Hunter. 
R.  H.  Homer. 
D.  C.  Preston. 


A.  C.  Beckwith. 
Nat.  Baker. 
George  T.  Beck. 


THE  TERRITORIES. 


A.  K.  Delaney. 


A.  G.  Oliver. 
A.  C.  Baker. 
E.  E.  Ellinwood. 


ALASKA. 
ARIZONA. 

AT   LARGE. 


James  Sheakley. 


M.  J.  Nugent. 
L.  C.  Hughes. 
H.  T.  Smith. 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 

AT   LARGE. 


James  L.  Norris. 


Henry  E.  Davis. 


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INDIAN  TERRITORY. 

AT   LARGE. 


W.  C.  Jackson. 
L.  B.  Bell. 


Felix  Martinez 
Idus  L.  Tielder. 
G.  A.  Richardson. 


H.  A.  Haskins. 


NEW  MEXICO. 

AT   LARGE. 


OKLAHOMA. 

AT   LARGE. 

UTAH. 
AT   LARGE. 


Henry  P.  Henderson. 


Solomon  E.  Jackson. 
John  S.  Sneed. 


Bernard  Seligman. 
E.  V.  Long. 
E.  V.  Chavez. 


John  T.  Levey. 


John  T.  Caine. 


THE  CHAIR  :     The  next  business  in  order  will  be  the  report  of 
the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Fordyce,  of  Arkansas,  arose  and  stated 
that  the  Committee  was  ready  to  report.  The  report 
was  sent  to  the  platform,  and  read  by  the  Secretary,  as 
follows  : 


REPORT   OF   COMMITTEE    ON    PERMANENT   ORGANIZATION. 


CHICAGO,  June  22,  1892. 


To  the  National  Democratic  Convention: 


Your  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization  have  the  honor  to 
submit  the  following  report,  and  recommend  its  adoption  by  the 
Convention,  viz  : 

FOR   PRESIDENT  OF  THE   CONVENTION  : 

WILLIAM  L.  WILSON. 
Of  West  Virginia. 

FOR  SECRETARY  OF   THE   CONVENTION  : 

SIMON  P.  SHEERIN, 
Of  Indiana. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


FOR    ASSISTANT    SECRETARIES 


EDWARD  L.  MERRITT,  Illinois. 
WM.  H.  DOYLE,  Pennsylvania. 
HAMBLETON  SHKPPERD,  Virginia. 
CLINTON  TILLERY,  Missouri. 
L.  E.  ROWLEY,  Michigan. 


ROBERT  E.  WILSON,  Mississippi. 
CHARLES  R.  DEFREEST,  New  York. 
JAMES  C.  STRAIN,  Illinois. 
THOMAS  BRADY,  Minnesota. 


FOR  CHIEF  READING  SECRETARY  : 

NICHOLAS   M.    BELL, 
Of  Missouri. 


FOR  ASSISTANT  READING  SECRETARIES  : 


MARTIN  MORRISON,  Indiana. 
CATO  SELLS,  Iowa. 
H.  S.  MARTIN,  Kansas. 
BERNARD  BROWN,  Montana. 


WM.  E.  THOMPSON,  Michigan. 
WM.  WILKINS  CARR,  Pennsylvania. 
HENRY  J.  LYNN,  Tennessee. 
THOMAS  M.  KNAPP,  Missouri. 


FOR    SERGEANT-AT-ARMS  : 

RICHARD  J.    BRIGHT, 
Of  Indiana. 

FOR  CHIEF  ASSISTANT  SERGEANT-AT-ARMS 

JOHN   P.   HOPKINS, 
Of  Illinois. 


FOR  ASSISTANT  SERGEANT-AT-ARMS  : 


L.  B.  WHITFIELD,  Alabama. 
W.  S.  BANCROFT,  Arkansas. 
N.  ROSENBERG,  California. 
JOHN  CORDON,  Idaho. 
LEVI  MOCK,  Indiana. 
HARRY  EVANS,  Iowa. 
E.  E.  MURPHY,  Kansas. 
THOMAS  L.  KEARNSV  Louisiana. 
E.  O.  MAHONEY,  Maryland. 
GEORGE  W.  THOMPSON,  Michigan. 


D.  O'BRIEN,  Minnesota. 

HUGH  McGowN,  Missouri. 

G.  A.  LIBBER,  North  Dakota. 

GEORGE  H.  SEALS,  Ohio. 

JOHN  McCALL,  South  Carolina. 

J.  A.  HOUHAHAN,  South  Dakota. 

GEO.  W.  FULTON,  JR.  ,  Texas. 

G.  W.  KELLY,  Vermont. 

H.  R.  HERD,  Wyoming. 

B.  F.  LAFAYETTE,  Indian  Territory. 


FOR   OFFICIAL   STENOGRAPHER  : 

EDWARD   B.    DICKINSON, 
Of  New  York. 


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61 


And  representing  the  different  States,  as  recommended 
by  their  respective  delegations,  the  following,  viz : 


VICE   PRESIDENTS  : 


Alabama — W.  F.  Vandiver. 
Arkansas — J.  G.  Fletcher. 
California — J.  D.  Carr. 
Colorado — Dr.  Henry  Paul. 
Connecticut — N.  G.  Osborn. 
Delaware — H.  R.  Cole. 
Florida — A.  B.  Hawkins. 
Georgia — J.  M.  Griggs. 
Idaho — R.  C.  Johnson. 
Illinois — N.  E.  Worthington. 
Indiana — James  Murdock. 
Iowa — Lucius  Wells. 
Kansas— W.  C.  Perry. 
Kentucky— Thos.  E.  Moss. 
Louisiana — John  Fitzpatrick. 
Maine — D.  J.  McGillicuddy. 
Maryland — Lewis  L.  Waters. 
Massachusetts — A.  C.  Houghton. 
Michigan — Wellington  R.  Burt. 
Minnesota — P.  B.  Winston. 
Mississippi — H.  L.  Muldrow. 
Missouri — W.  II.  Wallace. 
Montana — Frank  G.  Higgins. 
Nebraska — John  E.  Boyd. 
Nevada— E.  P.  Hardesty. 
New  Hampshire — Geo.  B.  Chandler. 


New  Jersey — John  Hone,  Jr. 
New  York — Roswell  P.  Flower. 
North  Carolina— Marshall  M.  Phinnix 
North  Dakota—].  E.  Campbell. 
Ohio— Robert  Blee. 
Oregon — T.  G.  Reames. 
Pennsylvania — Chas.  Robinson. 
Rhode  Island—  Francis  L.  O'Reilly. 
South  Carolina — B.  R.  Tillman. 
South  Dakota — Peter  Couchman. 
Tennessee — Julius  A.  Taylor. 
7Vjrfl.r— John  A.  Ireland. 
Vermont — J.  H.  Jackson. 
Virginia — S.  Wellford  Corbin. 
Washington— -H.  S.  Blandford. 
West  Virginia — A.  T.  Matthews. 
Wisconsin — William  Carson. 
Wyoming — Colin  Hunter. 
Alaska — A.  K.  Delaney. 
Arizona — A.  G.  Oliver. 
Dist.  of  Columbia — Chas.  Van  Dorre. 
Indian  Territory — W.  C.  Jackson. 
New  Mexico — G.  A.  Richardson. 
Oklahoma — John  I.  Levey. 
Utah—H.  P.  Henderson. 


SECRETARIES  : 


Alabama — L.  Strauss. 
Arkansas — Julius  Lesser. 
California — J.  C.  Kays. 
Colorado — William  Bailey. 
Connecticut — None  reported. 
Delaware — Chas.  W.  McPhee. 
Florida — N.  P.  Bishop. 
Georgia — Bascomb  Merrick. 
Idaho — J.  C.  Rosown. 
Illinois — James  C.  Strain. 
Indiana — Frank  Burk. 
Iowa — M.  R.  Jackson. 
Kansas — B.  J.  Sheridan. 
Kentucky—?,.  H.  Sullivan. 
Louisiana — Geo.  M.  Robertson. 
Maine—  D.  C.  Parker. 


Maryland — Murray  Vandiver. 
Massachusetts — (None  reported). 
Michigan — Clarence  Tinker. 
Minnesota — C.  J.  Haines. 
Mississippi — R.  E.  Wilson. 
Missouri — W.  S.  Anthonv. 
Montana — F.  H.  Sidney. 
Nebraska — (None  Reported). 
Nevada — Robert  Lewers. 
New  Hampshire — D.  F.  O'Connor. 
New  Jersey—  M.  T.  Barrett. 
New  York — Patrick  H.  McCurren. 
North  Carolina — (None  reported). 
North  Dakota — Andrew  Blewett. 
Ohio — Frank  Huffman. 
Oregon—?,.  F.  Flood. 


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OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


Pennslyvania — Geo.  S.  Fleming. 
Rhode  Island — Amos  J.  Dawley. 
South  Carolina — J.  W.   Stokes. 
South  Dakota — Ambrose  W.  Mullen. 
Tennessee — Charles  Ridley. 
Texas — Yancey  Lewis. 
Vermont — H.  E.  Fitzgerald. 
Virginia — (None  reported.) 
Washington — (None  reported.) 
West  Virginia — E.  R.  McGuin. 

W.  H.  PHELPS, 

Secretary. 


Wisconsin — (None  reported). 
Wyoming — D.  C.  Preston. 
Alaska — James  Sheakley. 
Arizona — (None  reported). 
Dist.  of  Columbia—].  N.  McGill. 
Indian  Territory — S.  E.  Jackson. 
New  Mexico — E.  V.  Chavez. 
Oklahoma — (None  reported). 
Utah — John  T.  Caine. 

F.  W.  FORDYCE, 

Chairman. 


THE  CHAIR  :  The  question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  report  from 
the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

The  report  was  unanimously  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR:     Mr.  Dickinson,  of  Michigan,  is  recognized. 

MR.  DON  M.  DICKINSON  :     I  move  that  a  committee  of  five  be 
appointed  by  the  Chair  to  notify    the  permanent    Chairman,   Mr. 
Wilson,  of  his  selection,  and  to  escort  him  to  the  platform. 
This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  appoint  as  that  committee  Don  M. 
Dickinson,  of  Michigan  ;  ].  F.  Duncombe,  of  Iowa ;  John  R.  Fel- 
lows, of  New  York;  Joseph  C.  Rich,  of  Alabama,  and  Martin  L. 
Clardy,  of  Missouri.  The  gentlemen  will  assemble  in  front  of  the 
Secretary's  desk. 

The  committee  thus  appointed  having  escorted  Mr. 
Wilson  to  the  platform,  the  Chair  said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen,  it  gives  me  much  pleasure  to  present 
to  you,  as  Permanent  Chairman  of  this  Convention,  one  of  the 
bravest  Democrats  in  America,  Mr.  William  L.  Wilson,  of  West 
Virginia. 

Mr.  Wilson  addressed  the  Convention  as  follows  : 

ADDRESS    OF   HON.   WILLIAM    L.  WILSON. 

GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  CONVENTION  :  I  thank  you  most  heartily 
for  this  honor.  I  shall  try  to  meet  the  duties  of  the  high  position 
to  which  you  call  me  with  the  spirit  of  fairness  and  equality  that 
is  Democracy.  This  Convention  has  a  high  and  patriotic  work  to 
perform.  We  owe  much  to  our  party ;  we  owe  much  to  our 
country.  The  mission  of  the  Democratic  party  is  to  fight  for  the 


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under  dog.  When  that  party  is  out  of  power  we  may  be  sure  there 
is  an  under  dog  to  fight  for,  and  that  the  under  dog  is  generally  the 
American  people.  When  that  party  is  out  of  power  we  may  be 
sure  that  some  party  is  in  control  of  our  Government  that  repre- 
sents a  section,  and  not  the  whole  country ;  that  stands  for  a  class, 
and  not  the  whole  people. 

•  Never  was  this  truth  brought  home  to  us  more  than  by  the  recent 
Convention  at  Minneapolis.  We  are  not  deceived  as  to  the  temper ; 
we  are  not  in  doubt  as  to  the  purposes  of  our  opponents.  Having 
taxed  us  for  years,  without  excuse  and  without  mercy,  they  now 
propose  to  disarm  us  of  further  power  to  resist  their  exactions. 
Republican  success  in  this  campaign,  whether  we  look  to  the  party 
platform,  the  party  candidates,  or  the  utterances  of  the  party  lead- 
ers, means  that  the  people  are  to  be  stripped  of  their  franchise 
through  force  bills,  in  order  that  they  may  be  stripped  of  their  sub- 
stance through  tariff  bills. 

Free  government  is  self-government.  There  is  no  self-govern- 
ment where  the  people  do  not  control  their  own  elections  and  levy 
their  own  taxes.  When  either  of  these  rights  is  taken  away  or 
diminished,  a  breach  is  made,  not  in  the  outer  defenses,  but  in  the 
citadel  of  our  freedom.  For  years  we  have  been  struggling  to  re- 
cover the  lost  right  of  taxing  ourselves,  and  now  we  are  threatened 
with  the  loss  of  the  greater  right  of  governing  ourselves.  The  loss 
of  the  one  follows  in  necessary  succession  the  loss  of  the  other. 
When  you  confer  on  government  the  power  of  dealing  out  wealth, 
you  unchain  every  evil  that  can  prey  upon,  and  eventually  destroy, 
free  institutions — excessive  taxation,  class  taxation,  billion-dollar 
Congresses,  a  corrupt  civil  service,  a  debauched  ballot-box  and  pur- 
chased elections.  In  every  campaign  the  privilege  of  taxing  the 
people  will  be  bartered  for  contributions  to  corrupt  them  at  the 
polls;  after  every  victory  there  will  be  a  new  McKinley  bill  to 
repay  those  contributions  with  taxes  wrung  from  the  people. 

For  every  self-governing  people  there  can  be  no  more  momen- 
tous question  than  the  question  of  taxation.  It  is  the  question,  as 
Mr.  Burke  truly  said,  around  which  all  the  great  battles  of  freedom 
have  been  fought.  It  is  the  question  out  of  which  flow  all  the 
issues  of  government.  Until  we  settle,  this  question  wisely,  perma- 
nently, justly,  we  build  all  other  reforms  on  a  foundation  of  sand. 
We  and  the  great  party  we  represent  are  to-day  for  tariff  reform, 
because  it  is  the  only  gateway  to  genuine  Democratic  government. 


64  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

The  distinguished  leader  who  presided  over  the  Republican 
Convention  boasted  that  he  did  not  know  what  tariff  reform  was. 
Whoever  said  that  he  did  ?  Let  us  hope,  with  that  charity  "  that 
beareth  all  things,  and  believeth  all  things,"  that  he  is  truly  as 
ignorant  as  he  vaunts  himself  to  be.  Unfortunately  the  people  are 
not  so  ignorant  of  the  meaning  of  protection,  at  least  of  the  pro- 
tection which  is  dealt  out  to  them  in  the  bill  that  bears  his  name. 
They  see  that  meaning  "writ  large"  to-day,  in  a  prostrated  agri- 
culture, in  a  shackled  commerce,  in  stricken  industries,  in  the 
compulsory  idleness  of  labor,  in  law-made  wealth,  in  the  discontent 
of  the  workingman  and  the  despair  of  the  farmer.  They  know  by 
hard  experience  that  his  protection  as  a  system  of  taxation  is  but  the 
old  crafty  scheme  by  which  the  rich  compel  the  poor  to  pay  the 
expenses  of  government.  They  know  by  hard  experience  that  pro- 
tection as  a  system  of  tribute  is  but  the  old  crafty  scheme  by  which 
the  power  of  taxation  of  the  people  is  made  the  private  property  of 
a  few  of  the  people. 

Tariff  reform  seeks  to  readjust  this  system  of  taxation,  and  to 
purge  away  this  system  of  tribute.  It  means  that  we  have  not 
reached  the  goal  of  perfect  freedom  so  long  as  any  citizen  is  forced 
by  law  to  pay  tribute  to  any  other  citizen,  and  until  our  taxes  are 
proportioned  to  the  ability  and  duty  of  the  taxpayer,  rather  than  to 
his  ignorance,  his  weakness  and  his  patience. 

Governor  McKinley  further  charges  that  the  Democratic  party 
believes  in  taxing  ourselves.  I'm  afraid,  gentlemen,  we  must  admit 
this  charge.  What  right  or  excuse  have  we  for  taxing  anybody 
else?  With  a  continent  for  a  country,  with  freedom  and  intelligence 
as  the  instruments  for  its  development,  we  stand  disgraced  in  the 
eyes  of  mankind  if  we  cannot,  and  if  we  do  not,  support  our  own 
government.  We  can  throw  that  support  on  other  people  only  by 
beggary  or  by  force.  If  we  use  the  one  we  are  a  pauper  nation ; 
if  we  use  the  other  we  are  a  pirate  nation. 

The  Democratic  party  does  not  intend  that  we  shall  be  either. 
No  more  does  it  intend  that  they  shall  falsely  call  it  taxing  other 
people  to  transfer  our  taxes  from  the  possession  of  those  who  own 
the  property  of  the  country  to  the  bellies  and  backs  of  those  who  do 
the  work  of  the  country.  It  believes  that  frugality  is  an  essential 
virtue  of  free  government.  It  believes  that  taxes  should  be  limited 
to  public  needs  and  be  levied  by  the  plain  rule  of  justice  and 
equality. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  65 

But,  gentlemen,  we  are  confronted  with  a  new  cry  in  this  cam- 
paign. The  Republican  party,  says  Governor  McKinley,  now  stands 
for  protection  and  reciprocity.  He  was  for  protection  alone  when 
he  framed  his  bill  in  the  House,  or  rather  permitted  its  beneficiaries 
to  frame  it  for  him  ;  and  firmly  resisted  all  efforts  of  the  statesman 
from  Maine  to  annex  reciprocity  to  it.  No  wonder  that  he  favors 
the  reciprocity  added  by  the  Senate.  You  may  explore  the  pages 
of  burlesque  literature  for  anything  more  supremely  ludicrous  than 
the  so-called  reciprocity  of  the  McKinley  bill.  It  is  not  reciprocity 
at  all.  It  is  retaliation,  and,  worst  of  all,  retaliation  on  our  own 
people.  It  punishes  American  citizens  for  the  necessities  or  the 
follies  of  other  people.  It  says  to  a  few  small  countries  south  of  it : 
"  If  you  are  forced  by  your  necessities  or  led  by  your  follies  to  make 
bread  higher  and  scarcer  to  your  people,  we  will  make  shoes  and 
sugar  higher  and  scarcer  to  our  people." 

And  now  we  are  told  that  reciprocity  is  to  be  their  battle-cry. 
Already  we  are  regaled  with  pictures  of  Benjamin  Harrison  clad  in 
armour,  and  going  forth  to  battle  for  reciprocity  on  a  plumed  steed. 
Simple  Simon  fishing  for  whales  in  his  mother's  rain  barrel  and  in 
great  triumph  capturing  an  occasional  wiggle-waggle,  is  the  only 
true  realistic  picture  of  the  reciprocity  of  the  McKinley  bill. 

We  are  for  the  protection  that  protects,  and  for  the  reciprocity 
that  reciprocates.  We  are  in  favor  of  protecting  every  man  in  the 
enjoyment  of  the  fruit  of  his  labor,  diminished  only  by  his  proper 
contribution  to  the  support  of  the  Government,  and  we  are  for  that 
real  reciprocity,  not  through  dickering  diplomacy  and  Presidential 
proclamations,  but  by  laws  of  Congress,  that  removes  all  unneces- 
sary obstacles  between  the  American  producer  and  the  markets  he 
is  obliged  to  seek  for  his  products. 

But,  gentlemen,  I  must  not  keep  you  from  the  work  that  is  before 
you.  Let  us  take  up  that  work  as  brothers,  as  patriots,  as  Demo- 
crats. In  so  large  a  convention  as  this,  larger  in  number  than  any 
previous  gathering  of  our  party,  and  representing  a  larger  constit- 
uency than  ever  before  assembled  in  any  convention,  it  would  be 
strange,  ominously  strange,  if  there  were  not  some  differences  of 
opinion  on  matters  of  policy,  and  some  differences  of  judgment  or 
of  preference  as  to  the  choice  of  candidates.  It  is  the  sign  of  a  free 
Democracy  that  is  many-voiced,  and,  within  the  limits  of  true  free- 
dom, tumultuous.  It  wears  no  collars ;  it  serves  no  masters.  We 
cannot  shut  our  eyes  to  the  fact  that  many  who  have  heretofore  fol- 
lowed our  flag  with  enthusiasm  are  to-day  calling,  with  excusable 


66  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

impatience,  for  immediate  relief  from  the  evils  that  encompass  them. 
Whatever  can  be  done  to  relieve  the  burdens,  to  restore,  broaden 
and  increase  the  prosperity  of  the  people  and  every  part  of  them, 
within  the  limits  and  according  to  the  principles  of  free  govern- 
ment, that  the  Democratic  party  dares  to  promise,  that  it  will  do 
with  all  its  might.  Whatever  is  beyond  this,  whatever  is  incompati- 
ble with  free  government  and  our  historic  liberty,  it  dares  not 
promise  to  anyone. 

Inveterate  evils  in  the  body  politic  cannot  be  cured  in  a  moment, 
any  more  than  inveterate  diseases  in  the  human  system.  Whoever 
professes  the  power  to  do  so  is  himself  deceived,  or  himself  a  de- 
ceiver. Our  party  is  not  a  quack  nor  a  worker  of  miracles. 

It  is  not  for  me,  gentlemen,  the  impartial  servant  of  you  all,  to 
attempt  to  foreshadow  what  your  choice  will  be  or  ought  to  be, 
in  the  selection  of  your  candidates.  You  will  make  that  selection 
under  your  own  sense  of  responsibility  to  the  people  you  represent 
and  to  your  country.  One  thing  only  I  venture  to  say  :  Whoever 
may.be  your  chosen  leader  in  this  campaign,  no  telegram  will  flash 
across  the  sea  from  the  castle  of  absentee  tariff  lords  to  congratu- 
late him.  But  from  the  home  of  labor,  from  the  fireside  of  the 
toiler,  from  the  hearts  of  all  who  love  justice  and  do  equity,  who 
wish  and  intend  that  our  matchless  heritage  of  freedom  shall  be 
the  common  wealth  of  all  our  people,  and  the  common  opportunity 
of  all  our  youth,  will  come  up  prayers  for  his  success  and  recruits 
for  the  great  Democratic  host  that  must  strike  down  the  beast  of 
sectionalism  and  the  Moloch  of  monopoly,  before  we  can  have  ever 
again  a  people's  government,  administered  by  a  people's  faithful 
representatives. 

Mr.  Clardy,  of  Missouri,  offered  the  following  reso- 
lution, which  was  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  are  due  and  are 
hereby  tendered  to  the  Temporary  Chairman,  the  Hon.  William  C. 
Owens,  for  the  able  and  impartial  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged 
his  duties. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  Committee  on  Rules  is  ready  to  report. 
The  gentleman  from  Indiana  will  read  the  report. 

MR.  WILLIAM  E.  ENGLISH,  of  Indiana,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Rules  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  : — As  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  of  this  Convention, 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  67 

I  have  been  instructed  by  the  majority  of  that  committee  to  submit 
the  following  report : 

REPORT   OF   THE    COMMITTEE   ON    RULES   AND    ORDER    OF    BUSINESS. 

To  the  National  Democratic  Convention  : 

Your  Committee  on  Rules  and  Order  of  Business  beg  leave  to 
submit  as  follows : 

We  recommend  the  following  order  of  business  to  be  observed  by 
this  Convention  : 

First — Report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials. 

Second — Report  of  the  Committee  on  Permanent  Organization. 

Third — Report  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions. 

Fourth — Nomination  of  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  President  of 
the  United  States. 

Fifth — Nomination  of  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States. 

Your  Committee  further  recommends  that  the  rules  of  the  last 
Democratic  Convention  shall  be  adopted  for  the  government  of  this 
Convention.* 

This  report  is  respectfully  submitted,  signed  by  all  the  Committee 
on  Rules. 

I  now  move  the  adoption  of  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee. 
The  report  as  submitted  was  unanimously  adopted. 

The  Secretary  requested  the  secretaries  of  all  dele- 
gations to  hand  to  the  official  stenographer,  before  the 
close  of  the  Convention,  a  full  list  of  their  respective 
delegations,  carefully  and  plainly  written,  to  avoid  errors 
in  spelling  and  other  inaccuracies  in  the  names  of  del- 
egates as  they  are  to  appear  in  the  official  record  of  the 
Convention. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  next  order  of  business  is  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions.  Is  that  Committee  ready  to  report? 


*For  the  rules  referred  to,  see  page  29  of  this  Record. 


68  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

There  was  no  response  to  this  inquiry.  Mr.  William 
H.  Phelps,  of  Missouri,  secured  the  floor  and,  coming 
to  the  front  of  the  platform,  presented  a  gavel,  made  of 
zinc,  to  President  Wilson,  in  the  following  words  : 

MR.  PHELPS  :  Mr.  Chairman — In  behalf  of  the  zinc  producers 
and  miners  of  Missouri,  I  present  to  you  this  gavel,  not  made  of  tin 
nor  stolen  from  a  Nebraska  homestead,  but  mined  and  made  in 
Jasper  County,  Missouri,  and  bearing  the  inscription,  "We  need  no 
protection,"  as  a  protest  against  the  mockery  of  legislation  which 
imposes  a  useless  tariff  of  thirty  per  cent  upon  the  metal  as  a  pretext 
for  taxing  the  lamp,  pick,  shirt,  and  blanket  of  the  miner  more  than 
forty  per  cent. 

The  Missouri  zinc  fields,  like  the  American  wheat  fields,  are  the 
most  productive  in  the  world.  The  same  market  which  fixes  the 
price  of  the  farmer's  wheat  regulates  the  price  of  the  miner's  zinc, 
and  he  has  long  since  learned,  what  the  farmer  is  rapidly  learning, 
that  the  market  in  which  he  sells  the  product  of  his  labor,  is  the  one 
in  which  he  should  purchase  the  implements  of  his  avocation  and 
the  necessities  of  his  household,  and  he  is  ready  to  do  his  part  in 
giving  the  electoral  vote  of  Missouri  to  the  nominee  of  this  Conven- 
tion by  40,000  majority. 

At  the  close  of  Mr.  Phelps'  speech,  he  handed  the 
gavel  to  the  President. 

THE  CHAIR:  The  zinc  miners  of  Missouri,  through  Mr.  Phelps, 
of  the  Missouri  delegation,  present  to  this  Convention  a  gavel  as  a 
protest  against  any  attempted  protection  upon  that  which  they 
produce,  with  the  expectation  and  hope  that  this  Convention  or  its 
nominee  will  use  this  gavel  to  knock  out  of  the  tariff  the  protection 
upon  zinc. 

THE  CHAIR:  Is  the  Committee  on  Platform  ready  to  report? 
The  Secretary  of  the  Convention  will  now  call  the  roll  of  the  States, 
that  they  may  hand  in  the  names  of  the  members  of  the  National 
Committee  and  members  of  the  Notification  Committee.  The  Clerk 
will  call  the  roll. 

MR.  J.  W.  ORR,  of  Kansas  :  Our  delegation  selected  among  other 
committeemen  and  other  selections,  a  Vice-President.  Shall  we 
report  the  name  of  our  Vice-President  to  the  Convention? 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


69 


THE  CHAIR  :  The  name  has  already  been  reported.  The  Secre- 
tary will  proceed  with  calling  the  roll  of  States  for  National  Com- 
mittee and  names  of  the  Committee  on  Notification. 

MR.  BELL  (Chief  Reading  Clerk)  :  I  am  requested  to  ask  each 
delegation  to  send  up  a  written  statement  giving  the  names  for 
National  Committeemen  and  the  Committee  on  Notification. 

I  will  not  call  the  roll,  but  each  delegation  can  send  the  names 
to  the  desk  of  the  Official  Stenographer. 

The  following  gentlemen  were  selected  as  members 
of  the  National  Democratic  Committee  and  of  the  Noti- 
fication Committee  : 


NATIONAL  COMMITTEE. 


Alabama — Henry  D.  Clayton. 
Arkansas — U.  M.  Rose. 
California — M.  F.  Tarpey. 
Colorado — Chas.'  S.  Thomas. 
Connecticut — Carlos  French. 
Delaware — Lewis  C.  Vandegrift. 
Florida — Samuel  Pasco. 
Georgia — Clark  Howell,  Jr. 
Idaho — Frank  W.  Beane. 
Illinois—  Ben.  T.  Cable. 
Indiana — S.  P.  Sheerin. 
Iowa — J.  J.  Richardson. 
Kansas — Chas.  W.  Blair. 
Kentucky — Thomas  H.  Sherley. 
Louisiana — J  ames  Jeffries. 
Maine — Arthur  Sewall. 
Maryland — Arthur  P.  Gorman. 
Massachusetts — Josiah  Quincy. 
Michigan — Daniel  J.  Campau. 
Minnesota — Michael  Doran. 
Mississippi — Chas.  B.  Howry. 
Missouri — John  G.  Prather. 
Montana — A.  J.  Davidson. 
Nebraska — Tobias  Castor. 
Nevada — R.  P.  Keating. 
New  Hampshire — AlvahW.  Sulloway. 


New  Jersey — Miles  Ross. 

New  York—  William  F.  Sheehan. 

North  Carolina — M.  W.  Ransom. 

North  Dakota — Wm.  C.  Leistikow. 

Ohio — Calvin  S.  Brice. 

Oregon— E.  D.  McKee. 

Pennsylvania — Wm.  F.  Harrity. 

Rhode  Island — Samuel  R.  Honey. 

South  Carolina — M.  L.  Donaldson. 

South  Dakota — James  M.  Woods. 

Tennessee — Holmes  Cummings. 

Texas—  O.  T.  Holt. 

Vermont — Bradley  B.  Smalley. 

Virginia — Basil  B.  Gordon. 

Washington — Hugh  C.  Wallace. 

West  Virginia — John  Sheridan. 

Wisconsin— E.  C.  Wall. 

Wyoming — W.  L.  Kuykendall. 

Alaska — A.  K.  Delaney. 

Arizona — Chas.  M.  Shannon. 

Dist.  of  Columbia — James  L.  Norris. 

New  Mexico— H.  B.  Ferguson. 

Oklahoma — T.  M.  Richardson. 

Utah — Samuel  A.  Merritt. 

Indian  Territory— Dr.  E.  N.  Allen. 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


NOTIFICATION   COMMITTEE. 


Alabama — Rufus  N.  Rhodes. 
Arkansas — B.  R.  Davidson. 
California— Stephen  M.  White. 
Colorado — Frank  Adams. 
Conntcticut — Robert  J.  Vance. 
Delaware — Robt.  J.  Reynolds. 
Florida— W.  D.  Chipley. 
Georgia — John  Triplett. 
Idaho — R.  Z.  Johnson. 
Illinois — Thomas  M.  Thornton. 
Indiana — William  A.  Cullop. 
Iowa — L.  M.  Martin. 
Kansas — James  W.  Orr. 
Kentucky — John  P.  Salyer. 
Louisiana — A.  W.  Crandall. 
Maine— Edw.  C.  Swett. 
Maryland — L.  Victor  Baughman. 
Massachusetts — Patrick  Maguire. 
Michigan — Richard  A.   Montgomery. 
Minnesota — Charles  M.  Foote. 
Mississippi — W.  V.  Sullivan. 
Missouri — James  W.  Walker. 
Montana — S.  T.  Hauser. 
Nebraska — John  A.  Crayton. 
Nevada— C.  W.  Hinchcliffe. 
New  Hampshire — Henry  R.  Parker. 


New  Jersey — George  H.  Barker. 
New  York — Norman  E.  Mack. 
North  Carolina — Kope  Elias. 
North  Dakota — Andrew  Blewett. 
Ohio— R.  R.  Holden. 
Oregon — Henry  Blackman. 
Pennsylvania — J.  Henry  Cochran. 
Rhode  Island—  Fayette  E.  Bartlett. 
South  Carolina — T.  D.  Jervey,  Jr. 
South  Dakota — Wm.  Van  Epps. 
Tennessee— -W '.  A.  Collier. 
Texas— J.  H.  McLeary. 
Vermont — Oscar  C.  Miller. 
Virginia — Abraham  Fulkerson. 
Washington — John  Collins. 
West  Virginia — John  Sheridan. 
Wisconsin — James  Barden. 
Wyoming — Robert  H.  Homer. 
Alaska — James  Sheakley. 
Arizona — E.  E.  Ellinwood. 
Dist.  of  Columbia — Henry  E.  Davis. 
New  Mexico — E.  V.  Long. 
Oklahoma — T.  M.   Richardson. 
Utah — Henry  P.  Henderson. 


MR.  WALKER,  of  Missouri  :  I  move  that  the  Hon.  John  G.  Car- 
lisle, of  Kentucky,  be  invited  to  come  to  the  platform  and  address 
the  Convention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  appoint  Mr.  Walker,  of  Missouri,  and  Governor 
Porter,  of  Tennessee,  a  committee  to  escort  Mr.  Carlisle  to  the 
chair. 

After  waiting-  a  proper  time  for  the  committee  to  con- 
vey the  request  of  the  Convention  to  Mr.  Carlisle,  the 
Chair  said  : 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  committee  reports  that  Senator 
Carlisle  is  not  present. 

MR.  FORDYCE,  of  Arkansas  :  I  move  that  ex-Gov.  James  E. 
Campbell,  of  Ohio,  be  requested  to  address  the  Convention. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  71 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  will  appoint  Mr.  Fordyce  and  Mr.  Martin,  of 
We'st  Virginia,  to  escort  Gov.  Campbell  to  the  platform. 

The  committee  having  performed  this  duty,  the  Chair 
said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  Your  enthusiasm  shows  that  among  the  quadrupeds 
the  camel  is  the  favorite  Democratic  animal.  I  introduce  to  you 
now  ex-Gov.  Campbell,  of  Ohio. 

Ex-Gov.  CAMPBELL  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  am  afraid  that  this  audi- 
ence has  not  any  especial  amusement  in  hand.  [Loud  cries  of 
"  Louder."]  I  would  be  glad  to  talk  louder,  but  there  are  too 
many  Democrats  here  for  any  one  man  to  talk  to.  I  am  afraid  the 
audience,  having  no  other  amusement,  wishes,  as  the  Chairman 
insinuates,  to  trot  out  the  Democratic  menagerie.  I  am  exhibited 
on  all  kinds  of  occasions,  and  I  certainly  would  not  make  an  excep- 
tion of  this.  I  am  complimented  and  flattered  by  your  invitation. 
I  would  not  think  of  repaying  that  kindness  by  inflicting  a  speech 
on  you.  And  if  I  did,  I  could  but  fail  by  contrast  with  the  mag- 
nificent, the  matchless  oration  delivered  to  you  this  day  from  this 
platform.  So  I  simply  thank  you,  and  ask  you  when  November 
rolls  around  to  keep  your  eye  on  Ohio. 

Mr.  Quinn,  of  Pennsylvania,  moved  that  the  Hon. 
William  U.  Hensel,  the  Attorney-General  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, be  invited  to  address  the  Convention. 

The  motion  was  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  appoint  Mr.  Quinn  and  Mr.  Allen,  of  Missouri, 
to  escort  Mr.  Hensel  to  the  platform. 

MR.  F.  G.  DAVIS,  of  Ohio  :  I  move  you,  sir,  that  the  Chair  ap- 
point a  committee  of  two  to  wait  on  the  Committee  on  Resolutions 
for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  when  the'y  will  be  ready  to  report. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  it  is  moved  by  Mr. 
Davis,  of  Ohio,  that  the  Chair  appoint  a  committee  of  two  to  wait 
on  the  Committee  on  Platform  and  ascertain  when  they  will  prob- 
ably be  ready  to  report  to  the  Convention. 

The  motion  was  adopted. 

Mr.  Davis,  of  Ohio,  and  Mr.  Hensel,  of  Pennsylvania, 
.  were  appointed  the  committee. 


72  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  GEO.  W.  OCHS,  of  Tennessee  :  I  move  you  that  ex-Gov. 
Bob  Taylor,  of  Tennessee,  be  invited  to  address  the  Convention., 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  am  requested  by  the  Governor  to  say  that  he  is 
not  well  enough  to  respond.  Mr.  Henry,  of  Mississippi,  moves  that 
the  Convention  invite  the  Hon.  Henry  Watterson  to  address  it  in 
his  own  matchless  manner. 

The  motion  was  adopted,  and  Mr.  Henry,  of  Missis- 
sippi, and  Mr.  Foster,  of  Indiana,  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  wait  on  Mr.  Watterson. 

Mr.  W.  BOURKE  COCKRAN  :  Mr.  President,  it  is  impossible  to 
follow  the  proceedings  of  the  Convention  while  the  aisles  are  occu- 
pied and  conversation  is  carried  on  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
delegations.  I  will  ask  that  order  be  preserved  before  any  business 
is  undertaken  by  the  Convention.  I  make  that  point  of  order. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  point  of  order  made  by  the  gentleman  from 
New  York  (Mr.  Cockran)  is  well  taken.  The  gentlemen  in  the 
aisles  will  take  their  seats. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  is  requested  by  the  Tennessee  delega- 
tion to  invite  ex-Gov.  Taylor,  of  Tennessee,  to  address  the  Conven- 
tion. 

There  was  such  great  confusion  that  the  Chair  was 
unable  to  gain  the  attention  of  the  Convention,  but 
finally  recognized  W.  Bourke  Cockran,  of  New  York, 
who  said  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  to  ask  the  nature  of  the  business  before 
the  Convention,  and  that  it  be  stated,  so  that  the  delegates  may 
understand  it. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gov.  Taylor  has  been  invited  to  address  the  Con- 
vention, but  the  Chair  has  received  a  message  from  the  Governor 
that  he  was  not  well  enough  to  speak,  and  in  deference  to  that  sug- 
gestion of  Gov.  Taylor,  the  Chair  did  not  put  the  motion. 

MR.  J.  S.  WILLIAMS,  of  Mississippi  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  move  you 
that  the  Hon.  W.  Bourke  Cockran,  of  New  York,  be  invited  to  ad- 
dress this  meeting. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  put  no  motion  until  the  Convention 
comes  to  order. 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  I  expect  to  have  some  business  with  this  Con- 
vention later  on. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  73 

The  speaker  was  interrupted  by  cries  of  "  Platform" 
and  "  Louder."  After  the  confusion  had  subsided  Mr. 
Cockran  said: 

Mr.  Chairman,  I'  can  neither  be  sent  to  the  platform  nor  taken 
from  it  by  any  noise.  I  desire  to  state  to  the  Convention  that  1 
expect  to  have  business  with  it  later  on.  For  the  present  I  believe 
that  if  there  be  no  other  business  to  occupy  the  attention  of  the 
Convention  the  delegates  had  better  fortify  their  systems  by  sub- 
stantial refreshments.  The  intellectual  refreshment  which  the 
Chair  afforded  us  will  not  be  eclipsed  by  any  orator  that  will  take 
the  platform  on  this  day,  or  during  the  session  of  this  Convention. 

Hon.  Don  M.  Dickinson,  of  Michigan,  was  recognized 
by  the  Chair,  and  moved  that  the  Convention  take  a 
recess  until  5  o'clock  P.  M. 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  the  Convention  took  a 
recess  until  5  o'clock  p.  M.  this  day.' 


74  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


SECOND    DAY. 


EVENING    SESSION. 

CHICAGO,  June  2,  1892. 

The  Chairman  called  the  Convention  to  order  at  5:33, 
as  follows  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Convention  will  be  in  order.  Gentlemen  will 
please  take  their  seats.  Prayer  will  be  offered  by  Rev.  Thomas  E. 
Green,  of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

PRAYER. 

Let  us  pray.  We  praise  Thee,  O  God,  and  we  acknowledge  Thee 
to  be  the  Lord.  All  the  earth  doth  worship  Thee,  the  Father 
Everlasting.  We  adore  Thee  as  the  King  of  kings  and  Ruler  of 
nations,  for  of  Thy  will  they  are  and  have  their  being.  We  worship 
Thee  as  the  Source  of  wisdom  and  truth,  for  of  Triee  comes  every 
good  and  perfect  gift.  We  adore 'Thee  as  the  great  All-Father, 
Who  hast  made  of  one  kindred  all  the  nations  of  the  earth. 
Vouchsafe  to  reveal  Thyself  to  us  at  this  time  in  Thy  manifold  rela- 
tion of  Creator,  Father  and  Guide.  Rule  Thou  over  us,  for  Thou 
art  mighty.  Give  us  wisdom,  for  we  are  ignorant.  Still  the  turbu- 
lent voices  of  earth's  contentions,  for  Thou  art  upright.  Especially 
grant  Thy  blessing  to  this  Convention,  assembled  for  the  great  con- 
cerns of  state,  gathered  from  all  the  broad  face  of  this  land,  covered 
with  Thy  manifold  blessings.  We  seek  Thee,  as  in  our  bounden 
duty,  for  Thy  guidance  and  Thy  grace,  and  as  we  come  at  this  time 
to  the  great  concern  of  this  gathering,  grant  Thou  especially  Thy 
mighty  benediction  of  wisdom  and  of  truth ;  and  as  these  Thy  servants 
shall  choose  one  who  shall  be  their  leader  in  the  contest  for  the 
magistracy  of  this  great  nation,  give  Thou  them  wisdom  that  they 
may  choose  aright.  May  he  whom  they  select  be  a  man  of  clean 
hands  and  pure  heart,  one  who  is  above  all  selfish  ambition,  whose 
aim  shall  be  his  country's  and  his  God's ;  and  in  whatever  work  we 
may  engage  in  the  days  to  come  may  the  right  be  victorious  over 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  75 

wrong,  may  liberty  be  victorious  over  oppression,  may  virtue  be 
victorious  over  vice,  may  that  righteousness  that  exalteth  a  nation 
be  ours,  and  may  Thy  blessing  be  upon  us  and  upon  our  children 
now  and  forevermore.  Amen. 

MR.  W.  W.  VANDIVERE,  of  Georgia  :  I  move  that  the  Conven- 
tion adjourn  until  11  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

This  motion  was  lost. 

Gov.  GLICK,  of  Kansas :  As  there  is  nothing  before  the  Conven- 
tion; I  desire  to  offer  this  resolution,  which  I  will  send  to  the  plat- 
form. 

This  resolution  went  to  the  Committee  on  Resolutions 
under  the  rule. 

MR.  JOHN  POWER,  of  Michigan  :  I  am  requested  to  announce  to 
the  Chair  that  the  Committee  on  Platform  will  be  ready  to  report 
in  fifteen  minutes. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Committee  on  Resolutions  have  ended  their 
labors,  and  will  be  ready  to  present  their  report  by  the  chairman 
of  that  committee  at  once,  Mr.  Jones,  of  Missouri. 

MR.  JONES  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention — I 
presume  that  this  committee,  in  its  relation  to  the  Convention,  pre- 
sents a  case  of  being  better  late  than  never.  I  wish  to  say,  how- 
ever, in  behalf  of  my  colleagues,  that  any  delay  to  which  you  have 
been  subjected  was  due  to  no  lack  of  diligence  or  industry  on  our 
part.  If  you  will  keep  a  little  quieter  there  will  be  no  difficulty, 
perhaps,  in  hearing. 

I  am  instructed  by  the  Committee  on  Resolutions  to  present  to 
you,  as  the  report  of  that  committee,  the  following  resolutions,  and 
to  move  their  adoption.  In  order  that  you  may  distinctly  hear 
what  the  committee  has  prepared,  I  intend  to  ask  a  gentleman  who  is 
as  familiar  as  myself  with  the  phraseology  of  the  platform  to  read  it 
for  me,  and  when  it  has  been  read  I  shall  move  the  previous  ques- 
tion upon  the  adoption  of  the  platform.  I  ask  Senator  Vilas,  of 
Wisconsin,  to  read  the  resolutions. 

Mr.  T.  M.  PATTERSON,  of  Colorado  :  Mr.  Chairman,  in  view  of 
that  statement,  I  desire  to  say  that  I  represent  a  minority  of  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions,  and  I  desire  to  announce  that  the 
minority  expects  to  be  heard,  in  order  to  present  its  report  before 
the  previous  question  shall  be  put. 


76  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Mr.  Vilas  then  proceeded  to  read  the  resolution,  as 
follows  : 

The  representatives  of  the  Democratic  party  of  the  United  States, 
in  National  Convention  assembled,  do  reaffirm  their  allegiance  to 
the  principles  of  the  party  as  formulated  by  Jefferson  and  exempli- 
fied by  the  long  and  illustrious  line  of  his  successors  in  Democratic 
leadership,  from  Madison  to  Cleveland* ;  we  believe  the  public 
welfare  demands  that  these  principles  be  applied  to  the  conduct  of 
the  Federal  Government  through  the  accession  of  power  of*  the 
party  that  advocates  them  ;  and  we  solemnly  declare  that  the  need 
of  a  return  to  these  fundamental  principles  of  free  popular  govern- 
ment, based  on  home  rule  and  individual  liberty,  was  never  more 
urgent  than  now,  when  the  tendency  to  centralize  all  power  at  the 
Federal  Capital  has  become  a  menace  to  the  reserved  rights  of  the 
States  that  strikes  at  the  very  roots  of  our  government  under  the 
Constitution  as  framed  by  the  fathers  of  the  republic. 

We  warn  the  people  of  our  common  country,  jealous  for  the  pres- 
ervation of  their  free  institutions,  that  the  policy  of  Federal  control 
of  elections  to  which  the  Republican  party  has  committed  itself  is 
fraught  with  the  gravest  dangers,  scarcely  less  momentous  than 
would  result  from  a  revolution  practically  establishing  monarchy 
on  the  ruins  of  the  republic.  It  strikes  at  the  North  as  well  as  at  the 
South,  and  injures  the  colored  citizen  even  more  than  the  white ; 
it  means  a  horde  of  deputy  marshals  at  every  polling-place,  armed 
with  Federal  power,  returning  boards  appointed  and  controlled  by 
Federal  authority,  the  outrage  of  the  electoral  rights  of  the  people 
in  the  several  States,  the  subjugation  of  the  colored  people  to  the 
control  of  the  party  in  power  and  the  reviving  of  race  antagonisms, 
now  happily  abated,  of  the  utmost  peril  to  the  safety  and  happiness 
of  all :  a  measure  deliberately  and  justly  described  by  a  leading 
Republican  Senator  as  "  the  most  infamous  bill  that  ever  crossed 
the  threshold  of  the  Senate."  Such  a  policy,  if  sanctioned  by  law, 
would  mean  the  dominance  of  a  self-perpetuating  oligarchy  of  office- 
holders, and  the  party  first  intrusted  with  its  machinery  could  be 
dislodged  from  power  only  by  an  appeal  to  the  reserved  right  of 
the  people  to  resist  oppression,  which  is  inherent  in  all  self-govern- 
ing communities.  Two  years  ago  this  revolutionary  policy  was 


*At  this  point  in  the  reading  of  the  report,  all  proceedings  were  interrupted  by  a  scene  ot 
tumultuous  confusion.  For  twenty  minutes  after  the  mention  of  Mr.  Cleveland's  name  Senator 
Vilas  waited  for  the  cheers,  shouts,  applause,  etc.,  etc.,  to  subside,  before  he  could  proceed. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  77 

•emphatically  condemned  by  the  people  at  the  polls ;  but  in  con- 
tempt of  that  verdict  the  Republican  party  has  defiantly  declared 
in  its  latest  authoritative  utterance  that  its  success  in  the  coming 
elections  will  mean  the  enactment  of  the  Force  Bill  and  the  usur- 
pation of  despotic  control  over  elections  in  all  the  States. 

Believing  that  the  preservation  of  republican  government  in  the 
United  States  is  dependent  upon  the  defeat  of  this  policy  of  legal- 
ized force  and  fraud,  we  invite  the  support  of  all  citizens  who  desire 
to  see  the  Constitution  maintained  in  its  integrity  with  the  laws 
pursuant  thereto  which  have  given  our  country  a  hundred  years  of 
unexampled  prosperity  ;  and  we  pledge  the  Democratic  party,  if  it 
be  intrusted  with  power,  not  only  to  the  defeat  of  the  Force  Bill,, 
but  also  to  relentless  opposition  to  the  Republican  policy  of  profli- 
gate expenditure  which,  in  the  short  space  of  two  years,  has 
squandered  an  enormous  surplus  and  emptied  an  overflowing  Treas- 
ury, after  piling  new  burdens  of  taxation  upon  the  already  overtaxed 
labor  of  the  country. 

We  reiterate  the  oft-repeated  doctrines  of  the  Democratic  party, 
that  the  necessity  of  the  government  is  the  only  justification  for 
taxation,  and  whenever  a  tax  is  unnecessary  it  is  unjustifiable  ;  that 
when  custom-house  taxation  is  levied  upon  articles  of  any  kind  pro- 
duced in  this  country,  the  difference  between  the  cost  of  labor  here 
and  labor  abroad,  when  such  a  difference  exists,  fully  measures  any 
possible  benefits  to  labor,  and  the  enormous  additional  impositions 
of  the  existing  tariff  fall  with  crushing  force  upon  our  farmers  and 
workingmen,  and,  for  the  mere  advantage  of  the  few  whom  it 
enriches,  exact  from  labor  a  grossly  unjust  share  of  the  expenses  of 
government,  and  we  demand  such  a  revision  of  the  tariff  laws  as 
will  remove  their  iniquitous  inequalities,  lighten  their  oppressions, 
and  put  them  on  a  constitutional  and  equitable  basis. 

But  in  making  reductions  in  taxes,  it  is  not  proposed  to  injure 
any  domestic  industries,  but  rather  to  promote  their  healthy  growth. 
From  the  foundation  of  this  government  taxes  collected  at  the  cus- 
tom house  have  been  the  chief  source  of  Federal  revenue.  Such 
they  must  continue. to  be.  Moreover,  many  industries  have  come 
to  rely  upon  legislation  for  successful  continuance,  so  that  any 
change  of  law  must  be  at  every  step  regardful  of  the  labor  and  cap- 
ital thus  involved.  The  process  of  reform  must  be  subject  in  the 
execution  of  this  plain  dictate  of  justice. 

We  denounce  the  McKinley  tariff  law  enacted  by  the  Fifty-first 
Congress  as  the  culminating  atrocity  of  class  legislation  ;  we  endorse 


78  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

the  efforts  made  by  the  Democrats  of  the*  present  Congress  to 
modify  its  most  oppressive  features  in  the  direction  of  free  raw  ma- 
terials and  cheaper  manufactured  goods  that  enter  into  general 
consumption ;  and  we  promise  its  repeal  as  one  of  the  beneficent 
results  that  will  follow  the  action  of  the  people  in  intrusting  power 
to  the  Democratic  party.  Since  the  McKinley  tariff  went  into 
operation  there  have  been  ten  reductions  of  the  wages  of  laboring 
men  to  one  increase.  We  deny  that  there  has  been  any  increase  of 
prosperity  to  the  country  since  that  tariff  went  into  operation,  and 
we  point  to  the  dullness  and  distress,  the  wage  reductions  and 
strikes  in  the  iron  trade,  as  the  best  possible  evidence  that  no  such 
prosperity  has  resulted  from  the  KcKinley  act. 

We  call  the  attention  of  thoughtful  Americans  to  the  fact  that 
after  thirty  years  of  restrictive  taxes  against  the  importation  of  for- 
eign wealth,  in  exchange  for  our  agricultural  surplus,  the  homes  and 
farms  of  the  country  have  become  burdened  with  a  real  estate  mort- 
gage debt  of  over  $2,500,000,000,  exclusive  of  all  other  forms  of 
indebtedness;  that  in  one  of  the  chief  agricultural  States  of  the  West 
there  appears  a  real  estate  mortgage  debt  averaging  $165  per  capita 
of  the  total  population  ;  and  that  similar  conditions  and  tendencies 
are  shown  to  exist  in  other  agricultural  exporting  States.  We  de- 
nounce a  policy  which  fosters  no  industry  so  much  as  it  does  that 
of  the  Sheriff. 

Trade  interchange  on  the  basis  of  reciprocal  advantages  to  the 
countries  participating  is  a  time-honored  doctrine  of  the  Democratic 
faith,  but  we  denounce  the  sham  reciprocity  which  juggles  with  the 
people's  desire  for  enlarged  foreign  markets  and  freer  exchanges  by 
pretending  to  establish  closer  trade  relations  for  a  country  whose 
articles  of  export  are  almost  exclusively  agricultural  products 
with  other  countries  that  are  also  agricultural,  while  erecting  a 
custom-house  barrier  of  prohibitive  tariff  taxes  against  the  richest 
countries  of  the  world,  that  stand  ready  to  take  our  entire  surplus 
of  products  and  to  exchange  therefor  commodities  which  are  neces- 
saries and  comforts  of  life  among  our  own  people. 

We  recognize  in  the  trusts  and  combinations,  which  are  designed 
to  enable  capital  to  secure  more  than  its  just  share  of  the  joint 
product  of  capital  and  labor,  a  natural  consequence  of  the  prohib- 
itive taxes  which  prevent  the  free  competition,  which  is  the  life  of 
honest  trade,  but  believe  their  worst  evils  can  be  abated  by  law, 
and  we  demand  the  rigid  enforcement  of  the  laws  made  to  prevent 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  79 

and  control  them,  together  with  such  further  legislation  in  restraint 
of  their  abuses  as  experience  may  show  to  be  necessary. 

The  Republican  party,  while  professing  a  policy  of  reserving  the 
public  land  for  small  holdings  by  actual  settlers,  has  given  away  the 
people's  heritage  till  now  a  few  railroad  and  non-resident  aliens, 
individual  and  corporate,  possess  a  larger  area  than  that  of  all  our 
farms  between  the  two  seas.  The  last  Democratic  administration 
reversed  the  improvident  and  unwise  policy  of  the  Republican 
party  touching  the  public  domain,  and  reclaimed  from  corporations 
and  syndicates,  alien  and  domestic,  and  restored  to  the  people 
nearly  one  hundred  million  (100,000,000)  acres  of  valuable  land  to 
be  sacredly  held  as  homesteads  for  our  citizens,  and  we  pledge  our- 
selves to  continue  this  policy  until  every  acre  of  land  so  unlawfully 
held  shall  be  reclaimed  and  restored  to  the  people. 

We  denounce  the  Republican  legislation  known  as  the  Sherman 
act  of  1890  as  a  cowardly  makeshift,  fraught  with  possibilities  of 
danger  in  the  future,  which  should  make  all  of  its  supporters,  as  well 
as  its  author,  anxious  for  its  speedy  repeal.  We  hold  to  the  use  of 
both  gold  and  silver  as  the  standard  money  of  the  country,  and  to 
the  coinage  of  both  gold  and  silver  without  discriminating  against 
either  metal  or  charge  for  mintage,  but  the  dollar  unit  of  coinage 
of  both  metals  must  be  of  equal  intrinsic  and  exchangeable  value, 
or  be  adjusted  through  international  agreement  or  by  such  safe- 
guards of  legislation  as  shall  insure  the  maintenance  of  the  party  of 
the  two  metals  and  the-  equal  power  of  every  dollar  at  all  times  in 
the  markets  and  in  the  payment  of  debts  ;  and  we  demand  that  all 
paper  currency  shall  be  kept  at  par  with  and  redeemable  in  such 
coin.  We  insist  upon  this  policy  as  especially  necessary  for  the 
protection  of  the  farmers  and  laboring  classes,  the  first  and  most 
defenseless  victims  of  unstable  money  and  a  fluctuating  currency. 

We  recommend  that  the  prohibitory  10  per  cent  tax  on  State  bank 
issues  be  repealed. 

Public  office  is  a  public  trust.  We  reaffirm  the  declaration  of  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  of  1876  for  the  reform  of  the  civil 
service,  and  we  call  for  the  honest  enforcement  of  all  laws  regulat- 
ing the  same.  The  nomination  of  a  President,  as  in  the  recent  Re- 
publican Convention,  by  delegations  composed  largely  of  his 
appointees,  holding  office  at  his  pleasure,  is  a  scandalous  satire 
upon  free  popular  institutions,  and  a  startling  illustration  of  the 
methods  by  which  a  Pesident  may  gratify  his  ambition.  We  de- 
nounce a  policy  under  which  the  Federal  officeholders  usurp  control 


80  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

of  party  conventions  in  the  States,  and  we  pledge  the  Democratic 
party  to  reform  these  and  all  other  abuses  which  threaten  individual 
liberty  and  local  self-goverment. 

The  Democratic  party  is  the  only  party  that  has  ever  given  the 
country  a  foreign  policy  consistent  and  vigorous,  compelling  respect 
abroad  and  inspiring  confidence  at  home.  While  avoiding  entang- 
ling alliances,  it  has  aimed  to  cultivate  friendly  relations  with  other 
nations,  and  especially  with  our  neighbors  on  the  American  conti- 
nent whose  destiny  is  closely  linked  with  our  own,  and  we  view 
with  alarm  the  tendency  to  a  policy  of  irritation  and  bluster  which 
is  liable  at  any  time  to  confront  us  with  the  alternative  of  humilia- 
tion or  war.  We  favor  the  maintenance  of  a  navy  strong  enough 
for  all  purposes  of  National  defense,  and  to  properly  maintain  the 
honor  and  dignity  of  the  country  abroad. 

This  country  has  always  been  the  refuge  of  the  oppressed  from 
every  land — exiles  for  conscience's  sake — and  in  the  spirit  of  the 
founders  of  our  government  we  condemn  the  oppression  practised 
by  the  Russian  Government  upon  its  Lutheran  and  Jewish  subjects, 
and  we  call  upon  our  National  Government,  in  the  interest  of  jus- 
tice and  humanity,  by  all  just  and  proper  means,  to  use  its  prompt 
and  best  efforts  to  bring  about  a  cessation  of  these  cruel  persecu- 
tions in  the  dominions  of  the  Czar,  and  to  secure  to  the  oppressed 
equal  rights. 

We  tender  our  profound  and  earnest  sympathy  to  those  lovers  of 
freedom  who  are  struggling  for  home  rule  and  the  great  cause  of 
local  self-government  in  Ireland. 

We  heartily  approve  all  legitimate  efforts  to  prevent  the  United 
States  from  being  used  as  the  dumping  ground  for  the  known  crim- 
inals and  professional  paupers  of  Europe,  and  we  demand  the  rigid 
enforcement  of  the  laws  against  Chinese  immigration  and  the  im- 
portation of  foreign  workmen  under  contract  to  degrade  American 
labor  and  lessen  its  wages,  but  we  condemn  and  denounce  any  and 
all  attempts  to  restrict  the  immigration  of  the  industrious  and 
worthy  of  foreign  lands. 

This  Convention  hereby  renews  the  expression  of  appreciation  of 
the  patriotism  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  Union  in  the  war 
for  its  preservation,  and  we  favor  just  and  liberal  pensions  for  all 
disabled  Union  soldiers,  their  widows  and  dependents,  but  we  de- 
mand that  the  work  of  the  Pension  Office  shall  be  done  industri- 
ously, impartially  and  honestly.  We  denounce  the  present  admin- 
istration of  that  office  as  incompetent,  corrupt,  disgraceful  and  dis- 
honest. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  81 

The  Federal  Government  should  care  for  and  improve  the  Missis- 
sippi River  and  other  great  waterways  of  the  Republic,  so  as  to 
secure  for  the  interior  States  easy  and  cheap  transportation  to  the 
tide-water.  When  any  waterway  of  the  Republic  is  of  sufficient 
importance  to  demand  the  aid  of  the  government  that  such  aid 
should  be  extended  upon  a  definite  plan  of  continuous  work  until 
permanent  improvement  is  secured. 

For  purposes  of  national  defense  and  the  promotion  of  commerce 
between  the  States  we  recognize  the  early  construction  of  the 
Nicaragua  Canal  and  its  protection  against  foreign  control  as  of 
great  importance  to  the  United  States. 

Recognizing  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  as  a  national 
undertaking  of  vast  importance,  in  which  the  General  Government 
has  invited  the  co-operation  of  all  the  powers  of  the  world,  and  ap- 
preciating the  acceptance  by  many  of  such  powers  of  the  invitation 
so  extended,  and  the  broad  and  liberal  efforts  being  made  by  them 
to  contribute  to  the  grandeur  of  the  undertaking,  we  are  of  opinion 
that  Congress  should  make  such  necessary  financial  provision  as 
shall  be  requisite  to  the  maintenance  of  the  national  honor  and 
public  faith. 

Popular  education  being  the  only  safe  basis  of  popular  suffrage, 
we  recommend  to  the  several  States  most  liberal  appropriations  for 
the  public  schools.  Free  common  schools  are  the  nursery  of  good 
government,  and  they  have  always  received  the  fostering  care  of 
the  Democratic  party,  which  favors  every  means  of  increasing  intel- 
ligence. Freedom  of  education,  being  an  essentiar  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty,  as  well  as  a  necessity  for  the  development  of  intel- 
ligence, must  not  be  interfered  with  under  any  pretext  whatever. 
We  are  opposed  to  State  interference  with  parental  rights  and 
rights  of  conscience  in  the  education  of  children,  as  an  infringement 
of  the  fundamental  Democratic  doctrine  that  the  largest  individual 
liberty  consistent  with  the  rights  of  others  insures  the  highest  type 
of  American  citizenship  and  the  best  government. 

We  approve  the  action  of  the  present  House  of  Representatives 
in  passing  bills  for  the  admission  into  the  Union  as  States  the  Ter- 
ritories of  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  and  we  favor  the  early  admis- 
sion of  all  the  Territories  having  the  necessary  population  and 
resources  to  entitle  them  to  Statehood,  and  while  they  remain  Ter- 
ritories we  hold  that  the  officials  appointed  to  administer  the  gov- 
ernment of  any  Territory,  together  with  the  District  of  Columbia, 


82  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

and  Alaska,  should  be  bona  fide  residents  of  the  Territory  or  Dis- 
trict in  which  their  duties  are  to  be  performed.  The  Democratic 
party  believes  in  home  rule  and  the  control  of  their  own  affairs  by 
the  people  of  the  vicinage. 

We  favor  legislation  by  Congress  and  State  Legislatures  to  protect 
the  lives  and  limbs  of  railway  employes,  and  those  of  other  hazard- 
ous transportation  companies,  and  denounce  the  inactivity  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  particularly  the  Republican  Senate,  for 
causing  the  defeat  of  measures  beneficial  and  protective  to  this  class 
of  wage-workers. 

We  are  in  favor  of  the  enactment  by  the  States  of  laws  for  abol- 
ishing the  notorious  sweating  system,  for  abolishing  contract  con- 
vict labor,  and  for  prohibiting  the  employment  in  factories  of 
children  under  15  years  of  age. 

We  are  opposed  to  all  sumptuary  laws  as  an  interference  with  the 
individual  rights  of  the  citizen. 

Upon  this  statement  of  principles  and  policies  the  Democratic 
party  asks  the  intelligent  judgment  of  the  American  people.  It 
asks  a  change  of  administration  and  a  change  of  party,  in  order 
that  there  may  be  a  change  of  system  and  a  change  of  methods, 
thus  assuring  the  maintenance  unimpaired  of  institutions  under 
which  the  republic  has  grown  great  and  powerful. 

MR.  JONES  :  In  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions,  I  move 
the  adoption  of  the  platform  as  read. 

MR.  LAWRENCE  T.  NEAL,  of  Ohio  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention — As  a  representative  from  the  State  of  Ohio 
on  the  Committee  on  Resolutions,  I  gave  notice  of  my  intention  to 
present  to  this  Convention  an  amendment  to  the  section  of  the  plat- 
form relating  to  the  tariff.  I  have  been  unable  conscientiously  to 
agree  with  the  majority  of  my  fellow  members  upon  that  section  of 
that  platform.  I  therefore  gave  notice  to  the  Committee  that  I 
would  move  in  open  Convention  to  strike  out  that  section  of  the 
platform  pertaining  to  the  tariff,  all  the  words  preceding  the  denun- 
ciation of  the  McKinley  act,  and  substituting  therefor  the  following  : 

"We  denounce  Republican  protection  as  a  fraud,  a  robbery  of 
the  great  majority  of  the  American  people  for  the  benefit  of  the 
few.  We  declare  it  to  be  a  fundamental  principle  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  that  the  Federal  Government  has  no  constitutional 
power  to  impose  and  collect  tariff  duties  except  for  the  purposes  of 
revenue  only,  and  demand  that  the  collection  of  such  taxes  shall  be 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  83 

limited  to  the  necessities  of  the  government  when  honestly  and 
economically  administered." 

BOURKE  COCKRAN,  of  New  York  :  If  the  gentleman  will  allow 
me  for  a  moment,  I  desire  to  suggest  that  the  amendment  be  re- 
ported again  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Convention. 

THE  CHAIR:     The  Clerk  will  report  the  amendment. 

The  Clerk  then  read  as  follows : 

"  We  denounce  Republican  protection  as  a  fraud,  a  robbery  of 
the  great  majority  of  the  American  people  for  the  benefit  of  the 
few.  We  declare  it  to  be  a  fundamental  principle  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  that  the  Federal  Government  has  no  constitutional 
power  to  impose  and  collect  tariff  duties  except  for  the  purposes  of 
revenue  only,  and  demand  that  the  collection  of  such  taxes  shall  be 
limited  to  the  necessities  of  the  government  when  honestly  and 
economically  administered." 

JOHN  R.  WALKER,  of  Missouri :  We  want  to'Jiear  that  which  you 
wish  to  strike  out  read.  We  call  for  the  reading  of  that  which  you 
propose  to  strike  out. 

MR.  NEAL:  Gentleman  of  the  Convention,  the  proposition  is  to 
strike  out  the  portions  of  the  section  relating  to  the  tariff,  which  the 
Secretary  will  now  read,  and  insert,  in  lieu  thereof,  the  amendment 
proposed  by  myself. 

The  Clerk  then  read  the  following  : 

"  We  reiterate  the  oft-repeated  doctrine  of  the  Democratic  party, 
that  the  necessity  of  government  is  the  only  justification  for  taxation; 
and  whenever  a  tax  is  unnecessary  it  is  unjustifiable ;  that  when 
custom-house  taxation  is  levied  upon  articles  of  any  kind  produced 
in  this  country,  the  difference  between  the  cost  of  labor  here  and 
labor  abroad,  when  such  a  difference  exists,  fully  measures  any  pos- 
sible benefits  to  labor;  and  the  enormous  additional  impositions  of 
the  existing  tariff  fall  with  crushing  force  upon  our  farmers  and 
workingmen,  and,  for  the  mere  advantage  of  the  few  whom  it  en- 
riches, exact  from  labor  a  grossly  unjust  share  of  the  expenses  of 
government. 

"And  we  demand  such  a  revision  of  the  tariff  laws  as  will  remove 
their  iniquitous  inequality,  lighten  their  oppressions,  and  put  them 
on  a  constitutional  and  equitable  basis  ;  but,  in  making  reduction 
in  taxes,  it  is  not  proposed  to  injure  any  domestic  industry,  but, 
rather,  to  promote  their  healthy  growth.  From  the  foundation  of 


84  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

this  government  taxes  collected  at  the  custom-house  have  been  the 
chief  source  of  federal  revenue.  Such  they  must  continue  to  be. 
Moreover,  many  industries  have  come  to  rely  upon  legislation  for 
successful  continuance,  so  that  any  change  of  law  must  be,  at  every 
step,  regardful  of  the  labor  and  capital  thus  involved.  The  process 
of  reform  must  be  subject  to  the  execution  of  this  plain  dictate  of 
justice." 

MR.  NEAL  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  the  history  of  our 
country  demonstrates  the  fact  that  the  American  people  will  consider 
and  determine  but  one  great  public  question  at  a  time.  Many  ques- 
tions, in  a  government  like  ours,  and  with  its  varied  interests,  will 
necessarily  attract  some  share  of  public  attention  at  one  and  the 
same  time.  But  it  is  none  the  less  true  that  some  one  question  will 
overshadow  all  others  in  importance,  and  command  for  itself  the 
highest  place  in  the  thoughts  of  the  people.  Such  a  question  we  now 
have  in  the  federal  system  of  protective  taxation.  Tariff  reform  has 
been  the  leading  political  issue  in  the  country  since  the  Democratic 
party  commenced  the  battle  for  a  revision  and  reduction  of  tariff 
taxes  more  that  four  years  ago.  it  must  continue  to  be  such  until 
it  shall  be  as  firmly  established  as  any  fundamental  principle  can 
be  that  the  Federal  Government  has  no  constitutional  power  to  im- 
pose and  collect  tariff  duties  except  for  revenue  alone,  and  that 
even  then  the  collection  of  such  taxes  shall  be  limited  to  the  neces- 
sities of  the  government  when  honestly  and  economically  admin- 
istered. 

A  protective  tariff  is  a  robbery  of  the  great  majority  of  the  people 
by  the  minority.  We  believe  it  to  be  so  ;  we  ought  to  have  the 
courage  of  our  convictions,  and  should  so  declare  in  this  enuncia- 
tion of  them.  The  fact  that  its  insidious  purposes  are  accomplished 
under  the  forms  of  law,  and  that  it  is  called  taxation,  renders  it 
none  the  less  a  robbery.  That  its  purposes  are  accomplished  by 
stealth  and  secrecy,  as  is  the  crime  of  an  assassin,  aggravates,  rather 
than  lessens,  the  enormity  of  the  offense.  Republican  protection  is 
as  hostile  to  our  form  of  government  as  was  the  principle  of  taxation 
without  representation,  for  which  our  fathers  rebelled  and  fought 
and  achieved  independence.  To  longer  heed  the  siren  cry  of  Re- 
publican protection  will  be  to  consent  to  the  degradation  of  the 
masses  in  the  interest  of  the  classes,  and  to  change  the  form  and 
character  of  our  government  itself  by  converting  it  from  Democ- 
racy, a  government  by  the  people,  into  an  aristocracy  of  wealth. 

The  rapid  concentration  of  the  wealth  of  the  country,  under  the 
fostering  care  of  protection,  foreshadows  this  threatened  change. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  85 

The  ownership  of  more  than  one-half  of  all  the  property  of  this 
great  country  by  17,000  persons,  and  the  still  rnore  astounding  fact 
that  250  of  our  63,000,000  of  people  own,  absolutely  own,  one- 
twelfth  of  all  the  property  of  63,000,000  of  people  proves  with  strik- 
ing force  the  necessity  for  this  change.  My  friends,  let  us  go  for- 
ward in  this  great  battle  which  we  have  commenced.  Let  us  not 
turn  our  backs  upon  the  enemy,  but  let  us  meet  this  controlling 
question  in  such  manner  that  the  most  uneducated  and  ignorant 
man  who  reads  that  platform  may  understand  it.  Let  us  continue 
this  fight  until  the  people  of  this  country  shall  have  reached  a  full 
and  final  conclusion  upon  this  great  question,  and  shall  have  de- 
termined it  in  favor  of  the  struggling,  toiling  millions  of  this  land, 
who  too  long  already  have  been  the  unwilling,  but  misguided,  vic- 
tims of  this  cruel  and  odious  doctrine  of  protection. 

HENRY  WATTERSON,  of  Kentucky :  Mr.  Chairman,  before  I  open 
my  lips  to  express  an  opinion  on  this  matter,  I  desire  to  have  read 
an  extract  from  the  tariff  plank  of  the  National  Democratic  Platform 
of  1876. 

The  Clerk  read  as  follows  : 

"  We  denounce  the  present  tariff,  levied  upon  nearly  four  thou- 
sand articles,  as  a  masterpiece  of  injustice,  inequality  and  false  pre- 
tense, which  yields  a  dwindling  and  not  a  yearly  rising  revenue,  and 
has  impoverished  many  industries  to  subsidize  a  few.  It  prohibits 
imports  that  might  purchase  the  products  of  American  labor.  It 
has  degraded  American  commerce  from  the  first  to  an  inferior  rank 
upon  the  high  seas.  It  has  cut  down  the  values  of  American  manu- 
factures at  home  and  abroad.  It  has  depleted  the  returns  of 
American  agriculture  and  industry,  followed  by  half  our  people.  It 
costs  the  people  five  times  more  than  it  produces  to  the  treasury, 
obstructs  the  process  of  production  and  wastes  the  fruit  of  labor. 
It  promotes  fraud,  fosters  smuggling,  enriches  dishonest  officials 
and  bankrupts  honest  merchants.  We  demand  that  all  custom- 
house taxation  shall  be  only  for  revenue." 

MR.  WATTERSON  :  This  declaration  of  principles  comes  to  us 
with  the  impression  of  the  wisdom  and  the  benediction  of  the  spirit 
of  that  sage  and  saint  of  Democrats,  Samuel  J.  Tilden. 

Twelve  long  years  I  fought,  upon  all  occasions  and  upon  every 
corner,  to  establish  the  doctrines  of  that  plank  as  an  article  of  car- 
dinal Democratic  faith,  and  finally,  when  seeing  it  at  last  practically 
affirmed  in  three  great  Democratic  tariff  acts,  and  finally  in  the 


86  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

message  of  a  great  Democratic  President;  finally,  when  I  saw  it 
affirmed  and  proclaimed  by  the  Democratic  Convention  which 
assembled  in  1888  in  St.  Louis,  I  said  :  "My  labors  are  over,  my 
fight  is  ended,  the  victory  is  won,  and  I  can  go  to  sleep  ;  I  shall 
never  again  be  needed  in  a  Democratic  platform  committee,  and 
can  intrust  safely  to  younger  and  less  experienced  hands  this  work 
of  my  life  and  love."  And  when  I  listened  to  the  extraordinary 
essay  we  have  heard  from  this  desk,  I  asked  myself  whether  we 
were  indeed  in  a  Democratic  Convention,  or  simply  in  a  Republican 
Convention  revised  by  James  G.  Elaine  or  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  for 
the  tariff  plank  we  have  listened  to  this  afternoon  is  almost  identi- 
cal in  principle  with  the  minority  report  submitted  to  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention  in  1884  by  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  and  voted  down 
almost  unanimously. 

I  have  no  dissertation  to  offer  you,  but  simply  a  statement  of 
facts  which  ought  to  accomplish  one  of  two  things  ;  either  you 
should  reject  this  monstrosity  which  has  been  hurled  among  you, 
and  adopt  in  its  place  this  simple,  lucid  and  true  amendment  offered 
by  the  gentleman  from  Ohio,  who  preceded  me  ;  or  if  you  do  not 
want  to  do  that,  if  you  want  to  take  some  time  to  think  about  it, 
"recommit  the  whole  matter  to  the  committee,  with  instructions  to 
clarify  and  purge  themselves. 

WILLIAM  F.  VILAS,  of  Wisconsin :  Mr.  President  and  gentlemen 
of  the  Convention,  I  shall  detain  you  but  a  moment.  I  presume 
there  is  no  gentleman  here  who  is  at  all  acquainted  with  my  public 
record  and  my  private  record,  as  a  follower  of  the  Democratic 
party,  who  does  not  know  that  every  expression  in  the  proposed 
resolution  read  by  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  I  have  over  and  over 
again  reiterated  from  the  stump  and  the  platform  for  now  these 
many  years.  But  I  desire  also  to  make  this  remark  :  It  is  impossi- 
ble to  say  too  much;  it  is  impossible,  almost,  to  say  enough  in  de- 
nunciation of  the  iniquitous  and  reckless  tariff  legislation  which  has 
been  inflicted  upon  this  country.  There  are  many  things  to  be 
said  with  reference  to  it ;  there  are  many  declarations  to  be  made 
in  regard  to  it.  You  can  extend  your  platform  to  any  degree  you 
see  fit,  or  that  the  wearied  powers  of  your  committeemen  in  hearing 
argument  and  debate  would  enable  them  to  give  to  its  consideration, 
but  this  resolution,  which  you  propose  to  strike  out,  was  a  resolu- 
tion reported  to  the  Convention  of  1884,  over  which  I  had  the 
honor  to  preside,  and  it  was  reported  by  that  prince  of  tariff  re- 
formers, Colonel  William  R.  Morrison,  and  of  all  the  eloquent  voices 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  87 

which  were  lifted  in  behalf  of  it  on  that  occasion,  none  were  so 
sweet  to  the  ears  of  the  Democrats,  none  rang  with  such  blissful  joy 
on  all  hands  as  that  of  the  distinguished  gentleman  from  Kentucky, 
Mr.  Watterson. 

MR.  WATTERSON  (referring  to  what  Mr.  Vilas  is  about  to  read)  : 
Read  it  well ;  you  can  do  it  a  great  deal  better  than  I  can. 

MR.  VILAS  (continuing) :  He  said  in  reference  to  it,  "  it  is  an 
honest  platform,  entirely  so.  It  is  a  sound  platform,  eminently  so." 
Now,  I  shall  not  pause  to  read  at  length  the  argument  which  the 
distinguished  gentleman  made  on  that  occasion,  but  half  of  the 
words,  in  point  of  volume,  in  that  part  of  the  platform  which  it  is 
proposed  to  strike  out,  and  which  I  have  heard  baptized  as  Re- 
publican to-day,  I  bowed  down  to  in  1884  as  sound  Democratic 
doctrine,  under  the  leadership  of  our  distinguished  and  magnificent 
friend. 

Now,  fellow  Democrats,  if  you  desire  the  additional  expression 
of  this  further  idea  in  regard  to  the  tariff,  which  the  gentleman  from 
Ohio  has  read,  why  nobody  can  take  it  with  more  satisfaction  than  I. 

Gentlemen,  I  don't  propose  to  enter  into  any  debate  or  discussion 
of  the  particular  form  of  words  in  which  we  declare  our  opposition 
to  tariff  legislation.  I  do  not  think  it  makes  much  difference  in 
what  form  of  words  we  repeat  our  unvarying  and  unswerving  hostil- 
ity to  that  great  robbery  and  iniquity.  I  do  not  care  much  for  the 
words,  because  five  years  ago  next  fall  a  President  of  the  United 
States  led  the  Democratic  party  into  a  position  on  that  tariff  ques- 
tion, which  was  not  only  right  and  proper,  and  splendid  and  Demo- 
cratic, but  it  has  given  life  blood  and  eternal  perpetuation  to  that 
party. 

Now,  fellow  Democrats  of  the  Convention,  I  desire  only  to  sug- 
gest that  if  it  please  you  to  take  in  this  form  of  words,  you  take  it 
in,  and  leave  that  other  also,  upon  which  Mr.  Cleveland  was  elected 
President. 

MR.  WATTERSON  :  One  word  only,  in  relation  to  a  reference  by 
my  honored  and  distinguished  friend,  the  Senator  from  Wisconsin, 
who  presided  over  that  Convention  of  1884,  and  that  is  this :  In 
1884  we  were  in  the  midst  of  the  throes  of  the  great  internecine 
tariff  controversy.  The  party  seemed  to  be  split  wide  open,  and, 
after  fifty-two  hours  of  unbroken  discussion  in  the  Platform  Com- 
mittee, the  best  that  the  more  moderate  and  conservative  members 
of  the  committee,  myself  among  the  number,  could  obtain,  as  com- 
mon ground  to  stand  upon,  was  the  platform  of  1884  of  that 


88  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Convention.  But  since  that  time  we  have  had  the  second  Morrison 
bill,  the  Mills  bill,  the  message  of  the  President  of  1887,  and  the 
campaign  of  education  in  1888,  and  I  say  to  myself:  "My  God,  is 
it  possible  that,  in  1892,  we  have  to  go  back  for  a  tariff  plank  to  the 
straddle  of  1884?" 

MR.  JONES  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen — On  behalf  of  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions,  I  wish  to  say  that  we  accept  the  amend- 
ment of  the  gentleman  from  Ohio  as  an  addition  to  Section  3. 

MR.  WALKER,  of  Missouri :     I  wish  to  understand  this. 
THE  CHAIR:     As  an  addition  to  Section  3. 
MR.  WALKER  :     Then  we  are  opposed  to  it. 

MR.  WATTERSON  :  Mr.  Chairman,  the  Convention  needs  to  be 
instructed  whether  it  is  proposed  to  accept  the  amendment  of  the 
gentleman  from  Ohio  as  a  substitute,  which  motion  I  support,  or 
whether  it  is  meant  to  tack  it  on  as  a  tail  or  addendum,  which  I 
oppose. 

THE  CHAIR:  Allow  the  Chair  to  explain  to  the  Convention  the 
status  of  the  matter.  If  the  Convention  will  keep  quiet  I  think  I 
can  be  heard.  The  status  of  the  matter  at  present  is  this  :  The 
gentleman  from  Ohio  offered  an  amendment  by  which  he  proposed 
to  strike  out  certain  portions  of  the  platform,  as  read,  and  to  insert 
therefor  an  amendment,  which  he  presented.  The  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Resolutions,  speaking  on  behalf  of  that  committee, 
offered  to  accept  the  proposed  amendment  as  an  addition  to  the 
platform. 

MR.  THOMAS  L.  JOHNSON,  of  Ohio  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion— I  endorse  heartily  the  amendment  of  my  colleague  from 
Ohio.  The  Democratic  party  has  been  hungering  for  years  for  a 
Democratic  platform  of  the  tariff,  and,  thank  God,  it  has  at  last 
come,  and  not  a  miserable  addition  to  that  stump  speech.  Strike 
out  what  they  put  in,  and  put  it  in  clear,  ringing  terms  what  we 
mean.  We,  on  the  stump  and  in  the  Democratic  press,  denounce 
the  protective  tariff  as  a  fraud.  Say  so  in  your  platform.  We  are 
speaking  to  the  people.  Be  honest  to  your  people.  The  only 
trouble  has  been  that  the  leaders  are  frightened ;  the  Democratic 
party  is  all  right. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  resolutions. 

MR.  NEAL  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  demand  a  call  of  the  roll  of  States 
upon  my  amendment. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  89 

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THE  CHAIR  :  The  question  is  on  the  amendment  offered  by  the 
gentleman  from  Ohio,  which  is  a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert, 
and  upon  that  the  call  of  the  roll  of  States  is  asked. 

H.  L.  Muldrow,  of  Mississippi,  arose,  saying  :  "I  rise  to  a  parlia- 
mentary inquiry." 

THE  CHAIR:  When  order  is  restored  the  Chairman  will  state  the 
question.  He  will  recognize  no  one  until  there  is  order  in  the 
Convention. 

MR.  COCKRAN,  of  New  York  :  Then  I  think  you  will  have  to 
wait  a  week. 

MR.  MULDROW  :  I  rise  to  make  a  parliamentary  inquiry.  If 
it  is  in  order,  I  desire  to  move  that  this  tariff  plank  be  referred 
back  to  the  Committee  on  Platform.  If  it  is  in  order,  I  desire  to 
make  that  motion. 

THE  CHAIR  :  If  you  will  wait  a  moment  until  order  is  restored, 
we  will  make  the  Convention  understand. 

In  the  confusion,  this  motion  of  Mr.  Muldrow's  was 
lost  sight  of  and  not  put. 

After  considerable  delay,  the  call  of  the  roll  was 
begun. 

HON.  T.  J.  O'Donnell,  of  the  Colorado  delegation,  said  :  Colo- 
rado votes  for  the  honest  Democratic  plank  ;  it  votes  aye. 

When  Illinois  was  called,  Gen.  Stevenson  said: 

Mr.  President,  upon  the  poll  of  the  delegation  from  Illinois  the 
vote  stands  33  yeas  and  15  nays.  By  instructions  of  the  State  Con- 
vention, I  cast  the  48  votes  of  Illinois  yea. 

When  the  State  of  Minnesota  was  called,  Judge  Wil- 
son announced  the  vote  of  the  State  as  18  nays.  Mr. 
Mareck,  of  the  delegation,  secured  recognition,  and 
said  : 

Here  is  one  vote  yea  from  Minnesota.  I  wish  to  be  recorded 
yea. 

JUDGE  WILSON  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  do  not  wish  to  be  misunder- 
stood. The  Minnesota  delegation  is  instructed  to  vote  on  all  ques- 
tions as  a  unit.  On  this  question  there  are  13  votes  nay,  and  5  votes 
yea;  therefore  I,  as  chairman  of  the  delegation,  cast  18  votes  votes 
nay. 


90  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

» 

Minnesota  was  recorded  18  votes  nay. 

Pennsylvania,  through  its  chairman,  declared  the  vote 
to  be  64  nays.  As  soon  as  the  vote  was  announced, 
William  A.  Wallace,  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegation, 
arose  and  said  : 

On  behalf  of  15  members  of  that  delegation,  I  protest,  sir,  against 
the  use  of  the  power  by  the  delegation  to  bind  those  fifteen  men  on 
questions  of  principle.  No  one  has  authority  or  power  to  bind  me 
or  state  my  opinion  in  matters  of  principle,  or  in  matters  of  right 
and  wrong.  They  have  no  right  to  cast  my  vote  on  a  question  of 
principle,  and  I  solemnly  protest. 

READING  CLERK  MORRISON  :     State  of  Rhode  Island? 

MR.  WALLACE,  of  Pennsylvania  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  to  ask 
how  the  vote  of  Pennsylvania  is  recorded,  and  to  inquire  if  the  vote 
of  a  minority  of  a  delegation  is  to  be  counted  with  the  majority 
vote? 

W.  U.  HENSEL,  of  Pennsylvania :  Before  the  Chair  decides  that 
question,  I  desire  to  state  the  conditions  under  which  the  delegation 
from  Pennsylvania  was  sent  to  this  Convention,  if  the  Chair  desires 
information  on  that  subject. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  state  that  he  is  not  informed  what 
the  action  of  previous  Democratic  Conventions  has  been  when  a 
question  of  this  character  has  arisen.  The  Chair  himself  would  rule 
that  the  vote  of  a  delegation,  as  announced  by  the  chairman  of  that 
delegation,  would  be  received,  unless  the  Convention  decided 
otherwise. 

MR.  WALLACE  :  Then  I  appeal  to  the  Convention,  and  demand 
a  call  of  States. 

MR.  HENSEL  :     I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of  order. 

MR.  HENSEL  :  The  delegation  from  Pennsylvania  comes  into 
this  Convention  delegated  by  a  State  Convention,  which  instructed 
it  to  vote  as  a  unit  upon  all  questions  which  might  come  before  it, 
and  that  its  vote  should  be  cast  in  accordance  with  the  direction  of 
a  majority  of  this  delegation.  Upon  a  call  being  taken  in  the  Penn- 
sylvania delegation,  it  was  ascertained  that  49  of  its  members  were 
in  favor  of  the  negative  of  this  proposition.  When  the  roll  was 
called  and  it  was  announced  there  being  a  division  in  the  Illinois 
delegation,  that  under  their  resolution  to  vote  as  a  unit  the  vote  of 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  91 

that  State  should  be  cast  and  should  be  counted  as  the  majority  di- 
rected, I  announced  this  vote  of  the  Pennsylvania  delegation  in  this 
manner.  This  Convention,  by  a  unanimous  vote  upon  the  unani- 
mous recommendation  of  its  Committee  on  Rules,  re-adopted  the 
rules  of  the  National  Conventions  of  1884  and  of  1888,  and  those 
rules  I  submit,  sir,  provide,  and  the  precedents  of  those  Conven- 
tions establish  it,  that  when  a  State  delegation  has  been  instructed 
to  vote  as  a  unit,  its  vote  should  be  so  announced  by  its  chairman, 
and  should  be  so  recorded  by  the  officers  of  this  Convention.  I, 
therefore,  Mr.  Chairman,  raise  the  point  of  order  that  until  the 
action  of  this  Convention  taken  this  morning  is  reconsidered,  and 
the  rules  which  it  adopted  have  been  rescinded  or  modified,  the 
proposition  of  the  distinguished  gentleman  on  my  left  (Mr.  Wallace) 
is  not  in  order. 

MR.  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  would  like  to  make  a  ruling  in  view  of 
some  investigations  that  have  been  made  as  to  this  question.  Since 
he  made  the  previous  ruling  he  has  been  informed,  by  gentlemen 
familiar  with  the  proceedings  for  two  or  three  Conventions  past, 
that  wherever  the  States  themselves  have  adopted  the  unit  rule,  the 
Convention  has  enforced  it.  He,  therefore,  repeats  the  ruling  he 
has  made,  that  the  announcement  of  the  vote  given  by  the  chair- 
man of  the  State  delegation  must  be  accepted  as  the  vote  of  that 
delegation,  and  that  an  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  Chair  can- 
not be  taken  pending  a  roll  call. 

MR.  WALLACE  :  I  desire  to  say,  sir,  that  when  I  arose  to  my  feet 
I  proposed  to  withdraw  the  appeal,  because  I  felt  that  my  object 
has  been  attained.  I  had  asserted  the  right  of  fifteen  men  in  the 
Pennsylvania  delegation  to  their  individual  opinion  upon  this  ques- 
tion of  principle,  and  I  now  assert  it. 

MR.  OWENS  :     What  is  the  vote  of  Pennsylvania  ? 
THE  OFFICIAL  STENOGRAPHER  :     Sixty-four  nays. 

MR.  OWENS  :  As  opposed  to  that,  I  want  to  call  the  attention  of 
the  Convention  to  the  fact  that  New  York  is  still  Democratic. 

When  the  State  of  Wisconsin  was  called,  the  chair- 
man of  the  delegation,  Mr.  Lamoreaux,  responded  as 
follows  : 

Mr.  President,  the  State  of  Wisconsin,  being  under  the  unit  rule, 
has  directed  me  to  cast  the  entire  vote,  without  protest  from  the 
minority,  24  votes  no. 


92 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


MR.  JACKSON,  of  Indian  Territory :  We  desire  to  have  Indian 
Territory  placed  upon  the  roll,  and  we  will  vote.  She  casts  her 
votes,  2  ayes. 

THE  CHAIR  :     Gentlemen,  listen  and  the  vote  will  be  announced. 
Secretary  reads  :  Yeas,  564  ;  nays,  342. 
THE  CHAIR  :     The  amendment  is  adopted. 

The  balloting,  by  States,  was  as  follows  : 

States.  Total  Vote. 

Alabama 22 

Arkansas 16 

California 18 

Colorado 8 

Connecticut 12 

Delaware 6 

Florida 8 

Georgia 26 

Idaho 6 

Illinois 48 

Indiana 30 

Iowa 26 

Kansas 20 

Kentucky 26 

Louisiana 16 

Maine 12 

Maryland 16 

Massachusetts 30 

Michigan 28 

Minnesota 18 

Mississippi 18 

Missouri 34 

Montana 6 

Nebraska 16 

Nevada 6 

New  Hampshire. . .     8 
New  Jersey 20 

MR.  OWENS  :  Mr.  Chairman — and  the  country  is  still  Demo- 
cratic. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  gentleman  from  Colorado,  Thomas  M.  Patter- 
son, is  recognized. 

MR.  PATTERSON,  of  Colorado  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of 
the  Convention — 

At  this  point  a  number  of  delegates  endeavored  to 
get  the  floor. 


Ayes. 
12 

Nays. 
10 

States.                Tota 
New  York  

I  Vote. 

19, 

Ayes. 

72 

Nayt. 

16 

18 

North  Carolina.  .  . 
North  Dakota. 

22 
6 

17 
6 

5 

8 

Ohio  

46 

46 

12 

8 

7 

1 

3 

6 
5 

Pennsylvania  
Rhode  Island.  .  .  . 

64 

8 

64 

8 

22 
6 

48 

4 

South  Carolina.  .  . 
South  Dakota..  .  . 

18 
8 
24 

18 
1 
5 

7 
18 

15 

15 

Texas  

m 

30 

26 

Vermont  

8 

8 

20 

Virginia  

94 

11 

11 

26 

Washington  

8 

8 

8 

8 
12 

West  Virginia.  .  .  . 
Wisconsin  

12 
24 

12 

24 

7 

9 

Wyoming  

6 

6 

26 

28 

4 

Territories. 
Alaska  

y 

2 

18 

Arizona              .  .  . 

6 

6 

11   . 
34 
6 

6 

Dist.  of  Columbia 
Indian  Territory.. 
New  Mexico  

2 
2 
6 

2 

5 

2 
1 

16 

Oklahoma  

9, 

2 

6 

Utah  

9, 

2 

8 
20 

Totals  

910 

564 

342 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  93 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  gentleman  from  Colorado  has  the  floor.  The 
Convention  must  come  to  order.  The  Chair  can  recognize  nobody 
else  while  the  gentleman  from  Colorado  has  the  floor. 

B.  J.  SHERIDAN,  of  Kansas  :  I  want  to  be  heard  in  the  interest 
of  the  gentleman  who  is  about  to  speak,  Mr.  Chairman.  I  want  to 
say  that  it  seems  to  me  the  gentlemen  here  who  are  not  delegates 
are  making  a  great  deal  of  trouble  in  regard  to  what  is  announced 
to  the  Convention,  and  the  galleries  are  doing  most  of  the  voting, 
if  they  can  do  it  by  their  lip  service  and  mockery.  I  want  the  del- 
egates to  have  a  fair  chance.  I  want  the  Chairman  to  call  the 
sergeant-at-arms  to  keep  order. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  holds  that  the  point  of  order  is  well 
taken,  that  the  parties  in  the  gallery  must  keep  quiet. 

MR.  PATTERSON  :  Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Conven- 
tion— There  was  another  matter  of  difference  between  the  members 
of  the  Committee  on  Resolutions.  The  difference  relates  to  the 
coinage  plank.  The  difference  is  embraced  in  the  use  of  a  single 
word,  and  the  substitute  that  some  of  the  members  from  the  South 
and  West  offer  consists  in  the  addition  of  a  word  of  five  letters, 
namely  the  word  "free."  (Cries  of  "four  letters,"  and  laughter.)  The 
speaker  addressing  you  accepts  the  unanimous  amendment  that  is  sug- 
gested by  the  delegates — a  word  of  four  letters  only,  and  that  word 
"free."  The  substitute  that  is  offered  is  the  resolution  of  the  com- 
mittee, word  for  word,  with  the  simple  addition  of  the  word  I  have 
suggested.  And  I  desire,  for  the  information  of  the  delegates,  to  read 
the  substitute  exactly  as  it  stands  :  "  We  denounce  the  Republican 
legislation,  known  as  the  Sherman  Act  of  1890,  as  a  cowardly  make- 
shift fraught  with  possibilities  of  danger  in  the  future,  which  should 
make  all  of  its  supporters,  as  well  as  its  author,  anxious  for  its 
speedy  repeal.  We  hold  to  the  use  of  both  gold  and  silver  as  the 
standard  money  of  the  country,  and  to  the  free  coinage  of  both 
gold  and  silver,  without  discrimination  against  either  metal  or 
charge  for  mintage  ;  but  the  dollar  unit  of  coinage  of  both  metals 
must  be  of  equal  intrinsic  and  exchangeable  value,  or  be  adjusted 
through  international  agreement,  or  by  such  safeguards  of  legisla- 
tion as  shall  insure  the  maintenance  of  the  parity  of  the  two  metals 
and  the  equal  power  of  every  dollar  at  all  times  in  the  markets  and 
in  the  payment  of  debts.  And  we  demand  that  all  paper  currency 
shall  be  kept  at  par  with  and  redeemable  by  it.  We  insist  upon 
this  policy  as  especially  necessary  for  the  protection  of  the  farmers 
and  laboring  classes,  the  first  and  most  defenseless  victims  of  unsta- 
ble money  and  a  fluctuating  currency." 


94  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

And,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  if  you  will  do  me  the  honor 
and  kindness  to  bear  with  me  for  a  short  time,  I  will  endeavor  to 
tell  you  why  this  difference  has  been  brought  before  the  body  of 
delegates.  The  difference,  fellow  delegates,  was  fundamental.  It 
was  not  a  matter  of  whim.  It  has  been  charged  that  the  free  coin- 
age men  of  the  West  and  South  sought  to  foist  the  extreme  views  of 
bimetallists  upon  the  Democratic  Convention.  Free  discussion  and 
a  respectful  hearing  is  due  to  every  honest  advocate  of  an  honest 
cause.  Though  you  may  differ  from  me,  there  are  millions  of 
people  in  this  country,  whose  votes  you  are  now  seeking,  who  do 
not  differ  with  me,  and  will  feel  toward  the  party  as  you  may  con- 
duct yourselves  toward  their  representatives  for  the  short  time  they 
may  be  before  you.  (Applause,  accompanied  by  noise  and  confu- 
sion.) Gentlemen,  I  cannot  speak  to  you  unless  I  can  be  at  least 
partially  heard,  if  it  takes  all  night. 

It  has  been  charged  that  the  free  coinage  men  of  the  West  and 
South  came  to  this  Convention  to  urge  what  has  been  denominated 
as  their  extreme  views  upon  the  coinage  question.  On  the  con- 
trary, they  are  satisfied  to  receive  from  this  body  its  expression  of 
faith  in  what  the  most  pronounced  opponent  of  free  coinage  loves 
to  assert  as  his  belief.  We  agree  that  the  free  coinage  shall  con- 
sist— 

J.  A.  MCK.ENZIE,  of  Kentucky  :  Mr.  Chairman,  it  must  be  evi- 
dent to  the  gentlemen  that  in  the  impatient  temper  of  this  Conven- 
tion that  it  is  not  the  time  to  make  an  address  that  I  know  so  much 
interest  attaches  to  as  the  one  he  is  now  making.  I,  therefore, 
venture  to  suggest  that  this  whole  matter  be  recommitted  to  the 
Committee  on  Platform. 

MR.  PATTERSON  (continuing)  :  All  we  have  sought  to  have  en- 
grafted in  the  platform  is  the  recognition — 

A  DELEGATE  :  It  certainly  cannot  be  that  the  delegates  will 
refuse  to  hear  the  gentleman  from  Colorado. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  gentleman  from  Colorado  has  the  floor,  and 
cannot  be  taken  from  the  floor  by  any  other  member. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  hope  the  Convention  will  hear  the  gentleman 
from  Colorado. 

MR.  PATTERSON  (continuing)  :  All  we  have  asked  is  the  recogni- 
tion of  the  doctrine  of  free  bimetallic  coinage  as  a  doctrine  of  the 
Democratic  party.  Not  the  coinage  of  a  70-cent  dollar,  but  the 
coinage  of  gold  and  silver  dollars  of  a  fixed  parity,  and  each  dollar 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  95 

containing  metal  of  equal  intrinsic  value.  The  only  matter  of  dis- 
pute between  us  and  the  committee  was  whether  or  not  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention  would  recognize  free  bimetallic  coinage  of  dollars 
of  equal  intrinsic  value  as  a  part  of  the  Democratic  faith,  or  take 
refuge  under  the  same  kind  of  a  contemptible  straddle  that  dis- 
graced the  Republican  Convention  at  Minneapolis.  Gentlemen  of 
the  Convention,  I  recognize  and  respect  your  impatience.  I  have 
stated  all  that  was  necessary  to  bring  before  you  of  the  matter  of 
difference.  Having  done  that,  as  a  representative  of  the  free 
metallic  coinage  men  of  the  Convention,  we  have  done  our  duty, 
and  the  responsibility  now  rests  with  you. 

THE  CHAIR:  The  question  is  on  the  adoption  of  the  amendment 
offered  by  the  gentleman  from  Colorado. 

On  a  call  for  the  yeas  and  nays,  the  Chairman  de- 
clared the  amendment  lost. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  question  is  now  on  the  adoption  of  the  plat- 
form as  amended. 

The  yeas  and  nays  being-  called  for,  the  platform  was 
declared  adopted. 

The  following  is  the  amended  platform,  as  adopted  by 
the  Convention  : 

PLATFORM. 

The  representatives  of  the  Democratic  party  of  the  United  States, 
in  National  Convention  assembled,  do  reaffirm  their  allegiance  to 
the  principles  of  the  party,  as  formulated  by  Jefferson  and  exempli- 
fied by  the  long  and  illustrious  line  of  his  successors  in  Democratic 
leadership,  from  Madison  to  Cleveland ;  we  believe  the  public  wel- 
fare demands  that  these  principles  be  applied  to  the  conduct  of  the 
Federal  Government  through  the  accession  to  power  of  the  party 
that  advocates  them  ;  and  we  solemnly  declare  that  the  need  of  a 
return  to  these  fundamental  principles  of  free  popular  government, 
based  on  home  rule  and  individual  liberty,  was  never  more  urgent 
than  now,  when  the  tendency  to  centralize  all  power  at  the  Federal 
capital  has  become  a  menace  to  the  reserved  rights  of  the  States 
that  strikes  at  the  very  roots  of  our  Government  under  the  Consti- 
tution as  framed  by  the  fathers  of  the  Republic. 

We  warn  the  people  of  our  common  country,  jealous  for  the  pres- 
ervation of  their  free  institutions,  that  the  policy  of  Federal  control 


96  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

of  elections,  to  which  the  Republican  party  has  committed  itself,  is 
fraught  with  the  gravest  dangers,  scarcely  less  momentous  than 
would  result  from  a  revolution  practically  establishing  monarchy 
on  the  ruins  of  the  Republic.  It  strikes  at  the  North  as  well  as  at 
the  South,  and  injures  the  colored  citizen  even  more  than  the  white ; 
it  means  a  horde  of  deputy  marshals  at  every  polling  place,  armed 
with  Federal  power,  returning  boards  appointed  and  controlled  by 
Federal  authority,  the  outrage  of  the  electoral  rights  of  the  people 
in  the  several  States,  the  subjugation  of  the  colored  people  to  the 
control  of  the  party  in  power,  and  the  reviving  of  race  antagonisms, 
now  happily  abated,  of  the  utmost  peril  to  the  safety  and  happiness 
of  all;  a  measure  deliberately  and  justly  described  by  a  leading 
Republican  Senator  as  "  the  most  infamous  bill  that  ever  crossed 
the  threshold  of  the  Senate."  Such  a  policy,  if  sanctioned  by  law, 
would  mean  the  dominance  of  a  self-perpetuating  oligarchy  of 
office-holders,  and  the  party  first  intrusted  with  its  machinery  could 
be  dislodged  from  power  only  by  an  appeal  to  the  reserved  right  of 
the  people  to  resist  oppression,  which  is  inherent  in  all  self-govern- 
ing communities.  Two  years  ago  this  revolutionary  policy  was 
emphatically  condemned  by  the  people  at  the  polls,  but  in  con- 
tempt of  that  verdict  the  Republican  party  has  defiantly  declared 
in  its  latest  authoritative  utterance  that  its  success  in  the  coming 
elections  will  mean  the  enactment  of  the  Force  Bill  and  the  usurpa- 
tion of  despotic  control  over  elections  in  all  the  States. 

Believing  that  the  preservation  of  Republican  government  in  the 
United  States  is  dependent  upon  the  defeat  of  this  policy  of  legal- 
ized force  and  fraud,  we  invite  the  support  of  all  citizens  who  desire 
to  see  the  Constitution  maintained  in  its  integrity  with  the  laws 
pursuant  thereto,  which  have  given  our  country  a  hundred  years  of 
unexampled  prosperity  ;  and  we  pledge  the  Democratic  party,  if 
it  be  intrusted  with  power,  not  only  to  the  defeat  of  the  Force 
Bill,  but  also  to  relentless  opposition  to  the  Republican  policy  of 
profligate  expenditure,  which,  in  the  short  space  of  two  years, 
squandered  an  enormous  surplus  and  emptied  an  overflowing  Treas- 
ury, after  piling  new  burdens  of  taxation  upon  the  already  overtaxed 
labor  of  the  country. 

We  denounce  Republican  protection  as  a  fraud,  a  robbery  of  the 
great  majority  of  the  American  people  for  the  benefit  of  the  few. 
We  declare  it  to  be  a  fundamental  principle  of  the  Democratic 
party  that  the  Federal  Government  has  no  constitutional  power  to 
impose  and  collect  tariff  duties,  except  for  the  purpose  of  revenue 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  97 

only,  and  we  demand  that  the  collection  of  such  taxes  shall  be  lim- 
ited to  the  necessities  of  the  Government  when  honestly  and  eco- 
nomically administered. 

We  denounce  the  McKinley  tariff  law  enacted  by  the  Fifty-first 
Congress  as  the  culminating  atrocity  of  class  legislation  ;  we  endorse 
the  efforts  made  by  the  Democrats  of  the  present  Congress  to 
modify  its  most  oppressive  features  in  the  direction  of  free  raw  ma- 
terials and  cheaper  manufactured  goods  that  enter  into  general 
consumption  ;  and  we  promise  its  repeal  as  one  of  the  beneficent 
results  that  will  follow  the  action  of  the  people  in  intrusting  power 
to  the  Democratic  party.  Since  the  McKinley  tariff  went  into 
operation  there  have  been  ten  reductions  of  the  wages  of  laboring 
men  to  one  increase.  We  deny  that  there  has  been  any  increase  of 
prosperity  to  the  country  since  that  tariff  went  into  operation,  and 
we  point  to  the  dullness  and  distress,  the  wage  reductions  and 
strikes  in  the  iron  trade,  as  the  best  possible  evidence  that  no  such 
prosperity  has  resulted  from  the  McKinley  Act. 

We  call  the  attention  of  thoughtful  Americans  to  the  fact  that 
after  thirty  years  of  restrictive  taxes  against  the  importation  of  for- 
eign wealth,  in  exchange  for  our  agricultural  surplus,  the  homes  and 
farms  of  the  country  have  become  burdened  with  a  real  estate 
mortgage  debt  of  over  $2,500,000,000,  exclusive  of  all  other  forms  of 
indebtedness  ;  that  in  one  of  the  chief  agricultural  States  of  the 
West  there  appears  a  real  estate  mortgage  debt  averaging  $165  per 
capita  of  the  total  populatiop  ;  and  that  similar  conditions  and  ten- 
dencies are  shown  to  exist  in  other  agricultural  exporting  States. 
We  denounce  a  policy  which  fosters  no  industry  so  much  as  it  does 
that  of  the  Sheriff. 

Trade  interchange,  on  the  basis  of  reciprocal  advantages  to  the 
countries  participating,  is  a  time-honored  doctrine  of  the  Demo- 
cratic faith,  but  we  denounce  the  sham  reciprocity  which  juggles 
with  the  people's  desire  for  enlarged  foreign  markets  and  freer  ex- 
changes by  pretending  to  establish  closer  trade  relations  for  a 
country  whose  articles  of  export  are  almost  exclusively  agricultural 
products  with  other  countries  that  are  also  agricultural,  while  erect- 
ing a  custom-house  barrier  of  prohibitive  tariff  taxes  against  the 
richest  countries  of  the  world,  that  stand  ready  to  take  our  entire 
surplus  of  products,  and  to  exchange  therefor  commodities  which 
are  necessaries  and  comforts  of  life  among  our  own  people. 

Wre  recognize  in  the  Trusts  and  Combinations,  which  are  designed 
to  enable  capital  to  secure  more  than  its  just  share  of  the  joint 

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product  of  Capital  and  Labor,  a  natural  consequence  of  the  pro- 
hibitive taxes,  which  prevent  the  free  competition,  which  is  the  life 
of  honest  trade,  but  believe  their  worst  evils  can  be  abated  by  law, 
and  we  demand  the  rigid  enforcement  oMhe  laws  made  to  prevent 
and  control  them,  together  with  such  further  legislation  in  restraint 
of  their  abuses  as  experience  may  show  to  be  necessary. 

The  Republican  party,  while  professing  a  policy  of  reserving  the 
public  land  for  small  holdings  by  actual  settlers,  has  given  away 
the  people's  heritage,  till  now  a  few  railroad  and  non-resident  aliens, 
individual  and  corporate,  possess  a  larger  area  than  that  of  all  our 
farms  between  the  two  seas.  The  last  Democratic  administration 
reversed  the  improvident  and  unwise  policy  of  the  Republican  party 
touching  the  public  domain,  and  reclaimed  from  corporations  and 
syndicates,  alien  and  domestic,  and  restored  to  the  people  nearly 
one  hundred  million  (100,000,000)  acres  of  valuable  land,  to  be 
sacredly  held  as  homesteads  for  our  citizens,  and  we  pledge  our- 
selves to  continue  this  policy  until  every  acre  of  land  so  unlawfully 
held  shall  be  reclaimed  and  restored  to  the  people. 

We  denounce  the  Republican  legislation  known  as  the  Sherman 
Act  of  1890  as  a  cowardly  makeshift,  fraught  with  possibilities  of 
danger  in  the  future,  which  should  make  all  of  its  supporters,  as 
well  as  its  author,  anxious  for  its  speedy  repeal.  We  hold  to  the 
use  of  both  gold  and  silver  as  the  standard  money  of  the  country, 
and  to  the  coinage  of  both  gold  and  silver  without  discriminating 
against  either  metal  or  charge  for  mintage,  but  the  dollar  unit  of 
coinage  of  both  metals  must  be  of  equal  intrinsic  and  exchangeable 
value,  or  be  adjusted  through  international  agreement  or  by  such 
safeguards  of  legislation  as  shall  insure  the  maintenance  of  the 
parity  of  the  two  metals  and  the  equal  power  of  every  dollar  at  all 
times  in  the  markets  and  in  the  payment  of  debts  ;  and  we  demand 
that  all  paper  currency  shall  be  kept  at  par  with  and  redeemable  in 
such  coin.  We  insist  upon  this  policy  as  especially  necessary  for 
the  protection  of  the  farmers  and  laboring  classes,  the  first  and  most 
defenseless  victims  of  unstable  money  and  a  fluctuating  currency. 

We  recommend  that  the  prohibitory  10  per  cent  tax  on  State 
bank  issues  be  repealed. 

Public  office  is  a  public  trust.  We  reaffirm  the  declaration  of  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  of  1876  for  the  reform  of  the  civil 
service,  and  we  call  for  the  honest  enforcement  of  all  laws  regulat- 
ing the  same.  The  nomination  of  a  President,  as  in  the  recent  Re- 
publican Convention,  by  delegations  composed  largely  of  his 


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appointees,  holding  office  at  his  pleasure,  is  a  scandalous  satire 
upon  free  popular  institutions  and  a  startling  illustration  of  the 
methods  by  which  a  President  may  gratify  his  ambition.  We  de- 
nounce a  policy  under  which  the  Federal  office-holders  usurp  con- 
trol of  party  conventions  in  the  States,  and  we  pledge  the  Demo- 
cratic party  to  reform  these  and  all  other  abuses  which  threaten 
individual  liberty  and  local  self-government. 

The  Democratic  party  is  the  only  party  that  has  ever  given  the 
country  a  foreign  policy  consistent  and  vigorous,  compelling  respect 
abroad  and  inspiring  confidence  at  home.  While  avoiding  entan- 
gling alliance,  it  has  aimed  to  cultivate  friendly  relations  with  other 
nations,  and  especially  with  our  neighbors  on  the  American  Conti- 
nent, whose  destiny  is  closely  linked  with  our  own,  and  we  view 
with  alarm  the  tendency  to  a  policy  of  irritation  and  bluster  which 
is  liable  at  any  time  to  confront  us  with  the  alternative  of  humilia- 
tion or  war.  We  favor  the  maintenance  of  a  navy  strong  enough  for . 
all  purposes  of  national  defense,  and  to  properly  maintain  the  honor 
and  dignity  of  the  country  abroad. 

This  country  has  always  been  the  refuge  of  the  oppressed  from 
every  land — exiles  for  conscience  sake — and  in  the  spirit  of  the 
founders  of  our  Government  we  condemn  the  oppression  practised 
by  the  Russian  Government  upon  its  Lutheran  and  Jewish  subjects, 
and  we  call  upon  our  National  Government,  in  the  interest  of  justice 
and  humanity,  by  all  just  and  proper  means,  to  use  its  prompt  and 
best  efforts  to  bring  about  a  cessation  of  these  cruel  persecutions  in 
the  dominions  of  the  Czar  and  to  secure  to  the  oppressed  equal 
rights. 

We  tender  our  profound  and  earnest  sympathy  to  those  lovers  of 
freedom  who  are  struggling  for  home  rule  and  the  great  cause  of 
local  self-government  in  Ireland. 

We  heartily  approve  all  legitimate  efforts  to  prevent  the  United 
States  from  being  used  as  the  dumping  ground  for  the  known  crim- 
inals and  professional  paupers  of  Europe  ;  and  we  demand  the 
rigid  enforcement  of  the  laws  against  Chinese  immigration  and  the 
importation  of  foreign  workmen  under  contract,  to  degrade  Ameri- 
can labor  and  lessen  its  wages ;  but  we  condemn  and  denounce  any 
and  all  attempts  to  restrict  the  immigration  of  the  industrious  and 
worthy  of  foreign  lands. 

This  Convention  hereby  renews  the  expression  of  appreciation  of 
the  patriotism  of  the  soldiers  and  sailors  of  the  Union  in  the  war 
for  its  preservation,  and  we  favor  just  and  liberal  pensions  for  all 


100  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

disabled  Union  soldiers,  their  widows  and  dependents,  but  we  de- 
mand that  the  work  of  the  Pensio'n  Office  shall  be  done  industriously, 
impartially  and  honestly.  We  denounce  the  present  administration 
of  that  office  as  incompetent,  corrupt,  disgraceful  and  dishonest. 

The  Federal  Government  should  care  for  and  improve  the  Missis- 
sippi River  and  other  great  waterways  of  the  Republic,  so  as  to 
secure  for  the  interior  States  easy  and  cheap  transportation  to  tide- 
water. When  any  waterway  of  the  Republic  is  of  sufficient  impor- 
tance to  demand  aid  of  the  Government,  such  aid  should  be 
extended  upon  a  definite  plan  of  continuous  work,  until  permanent 
improvement  is  secured. 

For  purposes  of  national  defense  and  the  promotion  of  commerce 
between  the  States,  we  recognize  the  early  construction  of  the 
Nicaragua  Canal  and  its  protection  against  foreign  control  as  of 
great  importance  to  the  United  States. 

Recognizing  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  as  a  national 
undertaking  of  vast  importance,  in  which  the  General  Government 
has  invited  the  co-operation  of  all  the  powers  of  the  world,  and  ap- 
preciating the  acceptance  by  many  of  such  powers  of  the  invitation 
so  extended,  and  the  broad  and  liberal  efforts  being  made  by  them 
to  contribute  to  the  grandeur  of  the  undertaking,  we  are  of  opinion 
that  Congress  should  make  such  necessary  financial  provision  as 
shall  be  requisite  to  the  maintenance  of  the  national  honor  and 
public  faith. 

Popular  education  being  the  only  safe  basis  of  popular  suffrage, 
we  recommend  to  the  several  States  most  liberal  appropriations  for 
the  public  schools.  Free  common  schools  are  the  nursery  of  good 
government,  and  they  have  always  received  the  fostering  care  of 
the  Democratic  party,  which  favors  every  means  of  increasing  intel- 
ligence. Freedom  of  education,  being  an  essential  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty,  as  well  as  a  necessity  for  the  development  of  intel- 
ligence, must  not  be  interfered  with  under  any  pretext  whatever. 
We  are  opposed  to  State  interference  with  parental  rights  and  rights 
of  conscience  in  the  education  of  children  as  an  infringement  of 
the  fundamental  Democratic  doctrine  that  the  largest  individual 
liberty  consistent  with  the  rights  of  others  insures  the  highest  type 
of  American  citizenship  and  the  best  government. 

We  approve  the  action  of  the  present  House  of  Representatives 
in  passing  bills  for  admitting  into  the  Union  as  States  the  Territo- 
ries of  New  Mexico  and  Arizona,  and  we  favor  the  early  admission 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  101 

of  all  the  Territories  having  the  necessary  population  and  resources 
to  entitle  them  to  Statehood,  and  while  they  remain  Territories  we 
hold  that  the  officials  appointed  to  administer  the  government  of 
any  Territory,  together  with  the  District  of  Columbia  and  Alaska, 
should  be  bona  fide  residents  of  the  Territory  or  district  in  which 
their  duties  are  to  be  performed.  The  Democratic  party  believes 
in  home  rule  and  the  control  of  their  own  affairs  by  the  people  of 
the  vicinage. 

We  favor  legislature  by  Congress  and  State  Legislatures  to  pro- 
tect the  lives  and  limbs  of  railway  employes  and  those  of  other  haz- 
ardous transportation  companies,  and  denounce  the  inactivity  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  particularly  the  Republican  Senate,  for 
causing  the  defeat  of  measures  beneficial  and  protective  to  this  class 
of  wage-workers. 

We  are  in  favor  of  the  enactment  by  the  States  of  laws  for  abol- 
ishing the  notorious  sweating  system,  for  abolishing  contract  convict 
labor,  and  for  prohibiting  the  employment  in  factories  of  children 
under  15  years  of  age. 

We  are  opposed  to  all  sumptuary  laws,  as  an  interference  with  the 
individual  rights  of  the  citizen. 

Upon  this  statement  of  principles  and  policies,  the  Democratic 
party  asks  the  intelligent  judgment  of  the  American  people.  It 
asks  a  change  of  administration  and  a  change  of  party,  in  order 
that  there  may  be  a  change  of  system  and  a  change  of  methods, 
thus  assuring  the  maintenance  unimpaired  of  institutions  under 
which  the  Republic  has  grown  great  and  powerful. 

After  the  adoption  of  the  platform,  the  Chairman 
said  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  next  order  of  business,  gentlemen,  is  the  call 
of  the  roll  of  States  for  the  nomination  of  candidates  for  the  office 
of  President.  The  Clerk  will  proceed  with  the  call  of  the  roll. 

MR.  W.  C.  OWENS,  of  Kentucky  :  We  don't  know  what  that  roll 
is  being  called  for. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Under  the  order  of  business,  the  roll  of  the  States 
is  now  to  be  called  for  nominees  for  the  office  of  President. 

The  Clerk  commenced  to  call  the  roll,  and  proceeded 
as  far  as  Alabama,  when  he  was  interrupted. 

MR.  FENLON,  of  Arkansas  :  I  move  that  the  rules  be  suspended, 
and  that  this  Convention  do  now  adjourn. 


102  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

This  motion  was  not  put,  the  roll  call  being  in  pro- 
gress. 

The  Clerk  again  called  the  State  of  Alabama,  from 
which  there  was  no  response.  He  then  called  the  State 
of  Arkansas. 

MR.  FORDYCE,  of  Arkansas  :  Arkansas  yields  her  place  to  New 
Jersey. 

MR.  CLARK,  of  Montana :  I  desire  to  know  the  question  upon 
which  we  are  voting. 

THE  CHAIR  :  We  are  not  voting.  We  are  calling  the  names  of 
the  States  for  the  nomination  of  President.  The  State  of  Arkansas 
yields  to  New  Jersey. 

The  Clerk  thereupon  called  the  State  of  New  Jersey, 
when  Gov.  Leon  Abbett,  of  that  State,  came  forward  to 
the  platform. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  presents  to  the  Convention  Gov.  Leon 
Abbett,  of  New  Jersey. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  LEON    ABBETT. 

MR.  CHAIRMAN  AND  GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  CONVENTION — In  pre- 
senting a  name  to  this  Convention,  I  speak  for  the  united  Democ- 
racy of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  whose  loyalty  to  Democratic 
principles,  faithful  services  to  the  party,  and  whose  contributions  to 
its  successes  entitle  it  to  the  respectful  consideration  of  the  Democ- 
racy of  the  Union.  Its  electoral  vote  has  always  been  cast  in  sup- 
port of  Democratic  principles  and  Democratic  candidates. 

In  voicing  the  unanimous  wish  of  the  delegation  from  New  Jersey, 
I  present,  as  their  candidate  for  the  suffrage  of  this  Convention,  the 
name  of  a  distinguished  Democratic  statesman,  born  upon  its  soil, 
for  whom  in  two  great  Presidential  contests  the  State  of  New  Jersey 
has  given  its  electoral  vote. 

The  supreme  consideration  in  the  mind  of  the  Democracy  of  New 
Jersey  is  the  success  of  the  Democratic  party  and  its  principles. 
We  have  been  in  the  past,  and  will  be  in  the  future,  ready  at  all 
times  to  sacrifice  personal  preferences  in  deference  to  the  clear 
expression  of  the  will  of  the  Democracy  of  the  Union.  It  is  because 
this  name  will  awaken  throughout  our  State  the  enthusiasm  of  the 
Democracy,  and  insure  success  ;  it  is  because  he  represents  the 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  103 

great  Democratic  principles  and  policy  upon  which  this  entire  Con- 
vention is  to-day  a  unit ;  it  is  because  we  believe  that  with  him  as 
a  candidate,  the  Democracy  of  the  Union  will  sweep  the  country 
and  establish  its  principles  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of 
the  land,  that  we  offer  to  the  Convention  as  a  nominee,  the  choice 
of  the  Democracy  of  New  Jersey^  Grover  Cleveland. 

If  any  doubt  existed  in  the  minds  of  the  Democrats  of  New 
Jersey  of  his  ability  to  lead  the  great  Democratic  hosts  to  victory, 
they  would  not  present  his  name  to-day ;  with  them  the  success  of 
the  party  and  the  establishment  of  its  principles  are  beyond  their 
love  or  admiration  for  any  man. 

We  feel  certain  that  every  Democratic  State,  though  its  preference 
may  be  for  some  other  distinguished  Democrat,  will  give  its  warm, 
enthusiastic  and  earnest  support  to  the  nominee  of  this  Convention. 
The  man  whom  we  present  will  rally  to  his  party  thousands  of  inde- 
pendent voters  whose  choice  is  determined  by  their  personal  con- 
viction that  the  candidate  will  represent  principles,  and  that  if 
chosen  by  the  people,  they  will  secure  an  honest,  pure  and  conserv- 
ative administration,  and  the  great  interests  of  the  country  will  be 
encouraged  and  protected.  The  time  will  come  when  other  dis- 
tinguished Democrats,  who  have  been  mentioned  in  connection 
with  this  nomination,  will  receive  that  consideration  to  which  the 
great  services  they  have  rendered  their  party  entitle  them,  but  we 
stand  to-day  in  the  presence  of  the  fact  that  the  majority  of  the 
Democratic  masses  throughout  the  country,  the  rank  and  file,  the 
millions  of  its  voters,  demand  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland. 

This  sentiment  is  so  strong  and  overpowering  that  it  has  affected 
and  controlled  the  actions  of  delegates  who  would  otherwise  pre- 
sent the  name  of  some  distinguished  leader  of  their  own  State,  with 
whom  they  feel  victory  would  be  assured,  and  in  whom  the  entire 
country  would  feel  confidence,  but  the  people  have  spoken,  and 
favorite  sons  and  leaders  are  standing  aside  in  obedience  to  their 
will. 

Shall  we  listen  to  the  voice  of  the  Democracy  of  the  Union ; 
shall  we  place  on  our  banner  the  man  of  their  choice,  the  man  in 
whom  they  believe,  or  shall  we,  for  any  consideration  of  policy  or 
expediency,  hesitate  to  obey  their  will  ? 

I  have  sublime  faith  in  the  expression  of  the  people  when  it  is 
clear  and  decisive.  When  the  question- before  them  is  one  that 
has  excited  discussion  and  debate  ;  when  it  appeals  to  their  inter- 
ests and  their  feelings,  and  calls  for  the  exercise  of  their  judgment ; 


104  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

and  when  they  then  say  "We  want  this  man,  and  we  can  elect  him," 
we,  their  representatives,  must  not  disobey  nor  disappoint  them. 
It  is  incumbent  upon  us  to  obey  their  wishes,  and  concur  in  their 
judgment ;  then,  having  given  them  the  candidate  of  their  choice, 
they  will  give  us  their  best,  their  most  energetic  efforts  to  secure 
success. 

We  confidently  rely  upon  the  loyal  and  successful  work  of  the 
Democratic  leaders  who  have  advocated  other  candidates.  We 
know  that  in  the  great  State  across  the  river  from  New  Jersey,  now 
controlled  by  the  Democratic  party,  there  is  no  Democrat  who  will 
shirk  the  duty  of  making  every  effort  to  secure  the  success  of  the 
candidate  of  this  Convention,  notwithstanding  his  judgment  may 
differ  from  that  of  the  majority.  The  Democracy  of  New  York, 
and  its  great  leaders,  whose  efforts  and  splendid  generalship  have 
given  to  us  a  Democratic  Senator  and  Governor,  will  always  be 
true  to  the  great  party  they  represent ;  they  will  not  waver,  nor 
will  they  rest  in  the  coming  canvass,  until  they  have  achieved  suc- 
cess. Their  grand  victories  of  the  past,  their  natural  and  honorable 
ambition,  their  unquestioned  Democracy,  will  make  them  arise  and 
fight  as  never  before,  and,  with  those  that  they  represent  and  lead, 
they  will  marshal  the  great  independent  vote,  and  we  will  again 
secure  a  Democratic  victory  in  New  York.  The  grand  Democrats, 
under  whose  leadership  the  City  and  State  of  New  York  are  now 
governed,  will  give  to  the  cause  the  great  weight  of  their  organiza- 
tions. The  thundering  echoes  of  this  Convention  announcing  the 
nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland  will  not  have  died  out  over  the 
hills  and  through  the  valleys  of  this  land,  before  you  will  hear  and 
see  all  our  leaders  rallying  to  the  support  of  our  candidate.  They 
will  begin  their  efforts  for  organization  and  success,  and  continue 
their  work  until  victory  crowns  their  efforts.  All  Democrats  will 
fight  for  victory,  and  they  will  succeed,  because  the  principles  of 
the  party  enunciated  here  are  for  the  best  interests  of  the  country 
at  large,  and  because  the  people  of  this  land  have  unquestioning 
faith  that  Grover  Cleveland  will  give  the  country  a  pure,  honest  and 
stable  government,  and  an  administration  in  which  the  great  busi- 
ness interests  of  the  country,  and  the  agricultural  and  laboring  inter- 
ests of  the  masses  will  receive  proper  and  due  consideration. 

The  question  has  been  asked,  Why  is  it  that  the  masses  of  the 
party  demand  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland  ?  Why  is  it  that 
this  man,  who  has  no  offices  to  distribute,  no  wealth  to  command, 
should  have  secured  the  spontaneous  support  of  the  great  body  of 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  105 

Democracy?     Why  is  it,  with  all  that  has  been  urged  against  him, 
the  people  still  cry,  "  Give  us  Cleveland  "  ? 

Why  is  it,  although  he  has  pronounced  in  honest,  clear  and  able 
language,  his  views  upon  questions  upon  which  some  of  his  party 
may  differ  with  him,  that  he  is  still  near  and  dear  to  the  masses? 
It  is  because  he  has  crystalized  into  a  living  issue  the  great  princi- 
ple upon  which  this  battle  is  to  be  fought  out  at  the  coming  election. 
If  he  did  not  create  tariff  reform,  he  made  it  a  presidential  issue  ; 
he  vitalized  it,  and  presented  it  to  our  party  as  the  issue  for  which 
we  could  fight  and  continue  to  battle,  until  upon  it  victory  is  now 
assured.  There  are  few  men  who,  in  his  position,  would  have  had 
the  courage  to  boldly  make  the  issue  of  tariff  reform,  and  present  it 
clearly  and  forcibly,  as  he  did  in  his  great  message  of  1887.  I  be- 
lieve that  his  policy  then  was  to  force  a  national  issue  which  would 
appeal  to  the  judgment  of  the  people. 

We  must  honor  a  man  who  is  honest  enough,  and  bold  enough, 
under  such  circumstances,  to  proclaim  that  the  success  of  the  party 
upon  principle  is  better  than  evasion  or  shirking  of  true  national 
issues  for  temporary  success.  When  victory  is  obtained  upon  a 
principle,  it  forms  the  solid  foundation  of  party  success  in  the 
future.  It  is  no  longer  the  question  of  a  battle  to  be  won  on  the 
mistakes  of  our  foes,  but  it  is  a  victory  to  be  accomplished  by  a 
charge  along  the  whole  line  under  the  banner  of  principle. 

There  is  another  reason  why  the  people  demand  his  nomination. 
They  feel  that  the  tariff  reform  views  of  President  Cleveland  and  the 
principles  laid  down  in  his  great  message,  whatever  its  temporary 
effect  may  have  been,  gave  us  a  living  and  a  vital  issue  to  fight  for, 
which  has  made  the  great  victories  since  1888  possible.  It  consoli- 
dated in  one  solid  phalanx  the  Democracy  of  the  Nation.  In  every 
State  of  this  Union  that  policy  has  been  placed  in  Democratic  plat- 
forms, and  our  battles  have  been  fought  upon  it,  and  this  great  body 
of  representative  Democrats  have  seen  its  good  results.  Every 
man  in  this  Convention  recognizes  this  as  the  policy  of  the  party. 
In  Massachusetts  it  gave  us  a  Russell ;  in  Iowa  it  gave  us  a  Boies. 
In  Wisconsin  it  gave  us  a  Peck  for  Governor,  and  Vilas  for  Sena- 
tor. In  Michigan  it  gave  us  Winans  for  Governor,  and  it  gave  us 
a  Democratic  Legislature,  and  it  will  give  us  eight  electoral  votes 
for  President.  In  1889,  in  Ohio,  it  gave  us  James  E.  Campbell  for 
Governor,  and  in  1891  to  defeat  him  it  required  the  power,  the 
wealth  and  the  machinery  of  the  entire  Republican  party.  In 
Pennsylvania  it  gave  us  Robert  E.  Pattison.  In  Connecticut  it 


106  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

gave  us  a  Democratic  Governor,  who  was  kept  out  of  office  by  the 
infamous  conduct  of  the  Republican  party.  In  New  Hampshire  it 
gave  us  a  Legislature,  of  which  we  were  defrauded.  In  Illinois  it 
gave  us  a  Palmer  for  Senator;  and  in  Nebraska  it  gave  us  Boyd  for 
Governor.  In  the  great  Southern  States  it  has  continued  in  power 
Democratic  Governors  and  Democratic  Legislatures. 

In  New  Jersey,  the  power  of  the  Democracy  has  been  strength- 
ened, and  the  Legislature  and  Executive  are  now  both  Democratic. 
In  the  great  State  of  New  York  it  gave  us  David  B.  Hill  for  Sena- 
tor, and  Roswell  P.  Flower  for  Governor. 

(The  mention  of  the  name  of  David  B.  Hill  was  the  signal  for  a 
long  continued  outburst  of  cheers,  applause,  etc.,  which,  finally 
abating,  the  speaker  continued.) 

With  all  these  glorious  achievements,  it  is  the  wisest  and  best 
party  policy  to  nominate  again  the  man  whose  policy  made  these 
successes  possible.  The  people  believe  that  these  victories,  which 
gave  us  a  Democratic  House  of  Representatives  in  1890,  and  Dem- 
ocratic Governors  and  Senators  in  Republican  and  doubtful  States, 
are  due  to  the  courage  and  wisdom  of  Grover  Cleveland.  And  so 
believing,  they  recognize  him  as  their  great  leader. 

In  presenting  this  name  to  the  Convention,  it  is  no  reflection 
upon  any  of  the  masterful  leaders  of  the  party.  The  victories 
which  have  been  obtained  are  not  alone  the  heritage  of  these  States; 
they  belong  to  the  whole  party.  I  feel  that  every  Democratic  State, 
and  every  individual  Democrat,  has  reason  to  rejoice  and  be  proud, 
and  applaud  these  splendid  successes.  The  candidacy  of  Grover 
Cleveland  is  not  a  reflection  upon  others  ;  it  is  not  antagonistic  to 
any  great  Democratic  leader.  He  comes  before  this  Convention 
not  as  the  candidate  of  any  one  State.  He  is  the  choice  of  the 
great  majority  of  Democratic  voters. 

The  Democracy  of  New  Jersey,  therefore,  presents  to  this  Con- 
vention, in  this,  the  people's  year,  their  nominee,  the  nominee  of 
the  people,  the  plain,  blunt,  honest  citizen,  the  idol  of  the  Demo- 
cratic masses,  Grover  Cleveland. 

At  the  mention  of  Mr.  Cleveland's  name,  another 
prolonged  demonstration  occurred  of  about  equal  dura- 
tion to  that  which  took  place  when  the  same  speaker 
referred  to  Mr.  Hill. 

The  Secretary  proceeded  with  the  call  of  the  States, 
beginning  with  California.  George  F.  Patton  responded 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  107 

on  behalf  of  the  delegation,  seconding  the  nomination  of 
Grover  Cleveland. 

Colorado  was  the  next  State  called,  when  Mr.  T.  J. 
O'Donnell  announced  to  the  Chair  that  Colorado  yielded 
to  the  State  of  New  York. 

William  C.  DeWitt,  from  the  State  of  New  York, 
came  to  the  platform. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  desire  to  present 
to  you  the  Hon.  William  C.  DeWitt,  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

At  this  point  the  continued  rainstorm  and  confusion 
in  the  hall  made  it  impossible  for  the  speaker  to  be 
heard  by  more  than  a  few  in  his  immediate  vicinity. 
Hon.  Bourke  Cockran  said  : 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  ask  that  the  proceedings  be 
suspended  for  the  present  on  account  of  the  down-pouring  storm, 
which  renders  it  impossible  for  the  speaker  to  be  heard. 

Without  any  formal  action,  proceedings  were  sus- 
pended until  the  violence  of  the  storm  had  sufficiently 
abated  to  enable  Mr.  DeWitt  to  make  himself  heard. 

The  fifteen  minutes  having  expired,  the  Chair  said: 

THE  CHAIR  :  If  the  Convention  will  come  to  order,  and  the 
parties  in  the  gallery  will  keep  quiet,  we  can  proceed. 

J.  C.  SOUTH,  of  Arkansas  :  I  move  that  the  nominations  be 
closed,  if  no  more  are  to  be  made. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  gentleman  from  New  York  has  the  floor. 

MR.  SCOTT,  of  Kansas  :  I  agree  with  you  that  the  gentleman 
from  New  York  should  be  heard,  and  I  move  that  the  galleries  be 
cleared,  unless  they  keep  quiet.  I  move  you,  therefore,  that  the 
galleries  be  cleared  unless  this  noise  be  stopped. 

MR.  WELLS,  of  Iowa  :  I  move  that  we.  adjourn  until  10  o'clock 
to-morrow  morning. 

THE  CHAIR:  The  Convention  will  be  in  order.  That  motion 
has  been  made  already. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  understand  that  the  gentleman  on  my  left  made 
a  motion  to  adjourn  until  10  o'clock  to-morrow  morning. 

THE  CHAIR  :     That  is  true. 


108  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  FENLOX,  of  Kansas  :     Let  us  know  what  is  in  order. 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  is  in  order  to  have  order.  The  gentleman  from 
New  York  has  the  floor,  and  cannot  be  taken  off  the  floor  without 
his  consent,  and  we  are  simply  waiting  for  the  Convention  to  come 
to  order  before  he  proceeds. 

Mr.  DeWitt  came  down  to  the  Stenographer's  table, 
in  order  to  get  away  from  the  down  pour  of  rain  falling 
upon  the  desk  of  the  Chairman,  and  was  about  to  begin, 
when  Mr.  Sheehan,  of  New  York,  advised  him  not  to 
proceed,  as  he  could  not  be  heard,  on  account  of  the 
storm  prevailing  at  the  time. 

After  a  few  minutes'  waiting,  and  amid  cries  of  "Go 
on,  go  on,"  Mr.  DeWitt  resumed  his  position  in  front 
of  the  Chairman's  desk  and  spoke  : 

ADDRESS    OF   HON.  WILLIAM    H.  DE  WITT. 

Mr.  President  and  Fellow  Delegates : — By  the  favor  of  my  col- 
leagues, I  have  now  the  high  honor  to  speak  the  voice  of  the  State 
of  New  York  in  this  council  of  the  Democracy  of  the  Nation. 

Our  majestic  commonwealth  needs  no  eulogy  here.  Gateway  of 
commerce,  both  from  the  ocean  and  the  lakes ;  vast  arsenal  of 
thought,  through  whose  press  the  intelligence  of  the  world  is  gath- 
ered and  scattered  throughout  the  land  ;  joined  to  the  agricultural 
regions  by  the  fertile  valleys  of  the  Hudson,  the  Mohawk,  and  the 
Genesee,  and  opening  up  through  the  triple  city,  seated  upon  its 
bay,  those  greater,  higher,  affluent  relations  with  the  other  peoples 
of  the  globe ;  the  fullest  development  of  which  will  be  the  source  of 
our  best  prosperity,  the  State  of  New  York  is  none  the  less  par- 
amount in  our  political  than  our  commercial  affairs.  Her  great  city  is 
the  life-giving  heart  of  the  Democratic  party.  Her  electoral  vote 
is  the  keystone  of  the  Federal  arch,  upon  which  alone  we  can  rest 
the  citadel  of  our  hopes.  She  realizes  in  her  present  relations  with 
the  Democratic  party  of  the  Nation  what  was  said  of  the  Roman 
Amphitheater  : 

"  While  stands  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  stand  ; 
When  falls  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  fall ; 
And  when  Rome  falls — the  world." 

In  view  of  that  critical  and  important  position  occupied  by  our 
State  in  the  impending  contest,  I  take  great  pride,  while  speaking 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  109 

for  its  regular  organization  of  the  party,  in  pointing  to  our  past  tri- 
umphs. In  1885  we  carried  New  York  by  11,134  majority;  in 
1886,  by  7,797;  in  1887,  by  17,077;  in  1888,  by  19,171  ;  in  1889,  by 
20,527,  and  in  1891,  by  47,937.  So  that  the  present  organization 
speaks  not  only  for  the  State,  indispensable  to  your  success  in  the 
Presidential  campaign,  but  speaks  for  that  State  organized  and 
arrayed  upon  the  lines  of  victory.  These  are  stubborn  facts,  which 
hypocrisy  cannot  conceal  nor  detraction  obliterate. 

So,  too,  at  the  outset,  this  Convention  should  fully  understand 
the  true  nature  of  the  Democracy  of  the  people  of  New  York.  It 
is  fundamental  and  vital  in  character.  We  believe  in  the  brother- 
hood of  man,  and  in  all  the  hearty  doctrines  of  equality  and  fra- 
ternity which  arises  from  that  faith. 

The  supreme  evil  of  our  age  is  the  use  of  the  law-making  power 
of  State  and  Nation  for  the  enrichment  of  the  few  at  the  expense  of 
the  many.  In  olden  times  the  bandit  armed  his  followers,  and  de- 
scended with  fire  and  sword  upon  the  industrial  classes.  In  modern 
times  the  same  spirit  of  rapine  erects  a  manufactory,  or  organizes  a 
corporation,  and  through  a  clause  in  a  tariff  act,  a  donation  of  the 
public  domain,  or  the  acquisition  of  chartered  privileges  effects  the 
same  result. 

Of  the  4,000  millionaires  in  the  country,  1,700  are  said  to  have 
amassed  their  fortunes  through  the  tariff,  and  an  equal  number 
through  the  corporations.  Out  of  these  causes  all  the  features  of 
an  aristocracy  have  arisen  in  our  social  life.  Caste  and  class  dis- 
tinction, profligacy  and  splendor,  social  dudes  and  political  ascetics 
have  taken  the  place  of  the  plain,  earnest  people  of  former  genera- 
tions. 

The  money  power  dominates  the  land  and  subordinates  the  sov-~ 
ereignty  of  the  people.  Patriotic  statesmanship  and  oratory  no 
longer  enjoy  the  honors  of  the  Republic,  and  the  apostles  of  truth, 
justice  and  liberty  are  supplanted  by  the  pliant  instruments  of  vast 
pecuniary  and  political  combinations.  In  such  a  crisis  the  Democ- 
racy of  New  York  wants  a  revival  of  the  fundamental  principles  of 
the  party.  A  leader  who  holds  that  corporations  created  by  State 
or  Nation,  are  not  amenable  to  the  control  of  their  creator,  or  who 
fails  to  sympathize  with  at  least  an  international  effort  to  enlarge 
the  currency  of  the  world  in  the  interests  of  productive  industry,  or 
who  makes  his  friends  and  counsellors  among  the  plutocrats  of  the 
land,  lacks  the  qualities  indispensable  to  a  triumphant  standard- 
bearer  of  our  unterrified  constituency.  Humanity  is  better  than 
dogma,  and  the  love  of  man  is  the  life  of  the  Republic. 


110  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Our  people  want  a  leader  filled  with  the  instincts,  aspirations, 
shrewdness,  sagacity,  hopes,  fears,  joys  and  sorrows,  which  crowd 
their  struggle  for  life  and  happiness. 

We,  therefore,  present  for  your  suffrages  the  name  of  him  who, 
having  enjoyed  all  the  honors  of  our  State,  still  finds  his  highest 
boast  in  the  sentiment  "I  am  a  Democrat."  However  eminent  may 
be  his  post  of  duty,  he  does  not  descend  to  us  from  above,  but  in 
the  roll-call  of  the  Democracy,  he  steps  proudly  from  the  ranks. 
Do  you  ask  for  his  credentials?  We  point  you  to  the  unbroken 
series  of  victories  by  which  he  has  rendered  New  York  a  veritable 
Gibraltar  to  the  Democracy  of  the  Union.  When,  with  all  the 
power  and  patronage  of  the  Federal  Government  at  his  command, 
the  distinguished  ex-President  lost  .the  State  of  New  York  by  a  mi- 
nority of  14,000  votes,  Governor  Hill  carried  it  by  a  majority  of  over 
19,000  votes.  At  every  election  during  the  last  ten  years  he  and 
his  friends  have  met  with  constantly  increasing  success.  No  sane 
man  can  reject  the  force  of  those  statistics,  and  in  pointing  the 
finger  of  destiny  it  must  outweigh  all  theory,  prophesy,  promises 
and  dreams. 

The  experience  of  the  past  must,  under  like  circumstances,  fore- 
cast the  events  of  the  future,  and  in  this  instance  the  conditions 
remain  unchanged. 

Mr.  Hill  never  had  any  alliance  with  malcontents,  nor  any  favor 
in  the  Republican  party.  The  class  of  men  from  our  State  who  so 
violently  oppose  his  nomination  to-day  have  uniformly  opposed 
him  in  the  past.  He  has  always  been  nominated  under  a  shower 
of  their  vituperation  and  abuse,  and  he  has  always  emerged  from 
the  conflict  with  the  increasing  commendation  of  the  people.  Be- 
ginning public  life  as  an  associate  of  Samuel  J.  Tilden  in  the  Legis- 
lature, he  has  been  mayor  of  the  city  of  his  home ;  he  was  elected 
Lieutenant-Governor  by  the  largest  vote  ever  given  to  the  candidate 
of  any  party  in  the  State  of  New  York  ;  he  has  been  twice  elected 
its  Governor,  and  now  represents  it  in  the  Senate  of  the  United 
States. 

It  is  not  essential  that  I  should  embark  in  fulsome  eulogy.  His 
signally  successful  administration  of  these  great  trusts  establishes 
his  capacity,  and  you  will  pardon  the  liberty  of  a  friend  when  I  say 
that  the  fact  that  he  is  a  poor  man,  fully  and  absolutely  devoted  to 
the  service  of  his  party,  is  worth  a  thousand  labored  eulogies  in 
demonstrating  the  patriotism  and  integrity  of  his  character.  He  is 
a  Cavalier  rather  than  a  Roundhead. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  Ill 

In  opposition  to  sumptuary  laws,  in  persistent  advocacy  of  the 
bill  granting  freedom  of  religious  worship,  in  the  increase  of  public 
holidays,  labor  day  and  half  holiday,  in  supporting  outdoor  sports 
and  pastimes,  he  has  done  more  than  any  public  man  of  his  time  to 
foster  and  develop  general  liberty  appropriate  to  modern  civiliza- 
tion. For  these  services  he  encounters  the  hostility  of  the  bigot 
and  the  hypocrite. 

He  is  a  firm  adherent  to  the  principles  of  frugality  and  economy 
in  public  affairs,  so  long  characteristic  of  the  party.  During  his 
administration  as  Governor,  our  State  debt  of  $7,000,000  was 
reduced  to  virtually  nothing,  while  the  property  and  interests  of  the 
State  were  adequately  maintained  and  improved.  These  things 
speak  in  tones  of  thunder  against  the  vilifications  of  his  enemies. 

From  the  beginning  of  his  public  career  he  has  remained  the 
faithful,  efficient,  untiring  friend  and  servant  of  the  laboring  classes, 
and  they  have  reciprocated  his  devotion  by  loyalty  and  support, 
which  has  rendered  him  invincible. 

You  will  understand  how  a  character  thus  radical  and  active 
should  stir  up  enmity  and  strife. 

It  is  said,  if  we  make  another  nomination  we  shall  have  a  calm 
election,  our  dear  business  interests  will  not  be  disturbed,  and  the 
people  will  be  quite  indifferent  about  the  result. 

If  it,  indeed,  be  true  that  politics  has  sunk  so  low  that  no  man 
can  serve  his  party  earnestly  without  personal  reproach  ;  if  national 
contentions,  through  regular  organization,  have,  indeed,  become 
pernicious  and  disreputable,  then  the  entire  system  of  popular  gov- 
ernment is  a  failure.  Nothing  is  more  healthy  than  political  agita- 
tion, and  nothing  is  more  dangerous  than  political  stagnation.  Men 
of  kindred  convictions  and  emotions  naturally  combine  on  all 
great  questions  of  civil  government ;  and  where  population  is  im- 
mense, there  must  be  parties  governed  by  appropriate  organizations. 
It  is  because  Mr.  Hill  awakens  party  feeling,  agitates  the  contending 
forces  to  the  very  dregs,  excites  the  wrath  of  the  Republican  and 
the  enthusiasm  of  the  Democrat,  that  he  is  a  healthy  and  success- 
ful candidate.  Politic  nominations  to  men  who  esteem  themselves 
better  than  their  party,  or  to  suckle  and  support  the  heartless  mid- 
dleman of  the  times,  are  distasteful  to  our  people. 

We  present  David  B.  Hill  as  the  candidate  of  an  unterrified  and 
aggressive  Democracy.  His  experience  teaches  us  that  such  is  the 
way  to  success. 


112  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

We  love  him  not  merely  for  the  enemies  he  has  made,  but  for 
the  enemies  he  has  conquered.  He  has  never  been  defeated,  and 
having  just  entered  upon  the  high  office  of  Senator  of  the  United 
States,  if  he  entertained  the  slightest  doubt  of  his  ability  to  carry 
his  State  he  would  not  suffer  his  name  to  be  connected  with  the 
nomination.  Besides,  the  delegation  from  New  York  is  not  itself 
unmindful  of  its  own  responsibility,  and  of  the  great  duty  of  truth 
and  candor  it  owes  to  this  body. 

We  have  never  misled  you  in  presenting  a  sterling  Democrat  to 
your  favor.  We  gave  you  Horatio  Seymour,  and  our  people  en- 
dorsed him  against  General  Grant.  We  gave  you  Samuel  J.  Tilden, 
and  in  turn  our  State  endorsed  him.  We  acquiesced  in,  but  we  did 
not  advise,  the  nomination  of  1888.  The  consequences  are  known. 
Not  for  a  single  instant  would  we  counsel  and  urge  this  Convention 
to  nominate  David  B.  Hill  were  we  not  sure,  from  careful  scrutiny  and 
deliberation,  fortified  by  the  tests  of  our  elections,  that  he  can 
carry  the  State,  the  vote  of  which  in  the  Electoral  College,  under 
the  recent  apportionment,  is  absolutely  indispensable  to  a  Demo- 
cratic victory. 

Another  thought,  Mr.  President,  higher  and  deeper  than  any 
mere  matter  of  individual  candidacy,  must  be  expressed  before  my 
task  is  completed. 

In  this  national  household  of  the  Democratic  party,  a  certain 
comity  between  the  different  States  is  due  to  the  sovereignty  of  each 
and  the  fraternity  of  all.  The  delegates  from  New  York  were 
elected  by  the  unanimous  votes  of  a  State  Convention,  duly  called, 
under  the  authority  which  has  held  undisputed  sway  since  1848,  and 
which  was  approved  by  the  party  at  the  last  election  by  a  majority 
of  48,000  in  the  State.  Not  a  dissenting  voice  marred  the  harmo- 
nious action  of  this  regularly  constituted  and  authoritative  body. 

Our  delegation  is  headed  by  the  Governor  and  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  freshly  chosen  by  unprecedented  party  majorities,  and  it  is 
filled  by  representatives  from  the  various  districts,  many  of  whom 
are  well  known  to  you  all. 

For  no  earthly  reason  worthy  a  moment's  consideration,  other 
than  that  this  State  Convention  preferred  the  leadership  of  Senator 
Hill,  and  this  delegation  sympathized  with  that  preference,  a  revolt 
was  set  afoot  in  our  State,  an  organization  was  formed,  an  attack 
was  instigated  upon  us  through  an  unfriendly  press ;  a  parcel  of 
gentlemen  were  selected  to  come  here  to  contest  our  seats  and 
nullify  our  influence,  and  thus  a  distinguished  candidate  for  the 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  113 

Presidency,  whom  heretofore  we  had  assisted  in  becoming  Governor 
and  President,  was  put  upon  a  war  footing  toward  the  regular  State 
organization  of  the  party. 

The  contesting  delegation  has  been  dismissed  from  your  doors, 
and  now  you  are  asked,  not  merely  to  defeat  the  choice  of  our  State 
for  the  nomination,  but,  in  addition,  to  force  upon  us  a  candidate 
from  our  own  homes,  hostile  to  our  organization.  Such  is  not  the 
measure  of  courtesy  and  friendship  which  we,  of  New  York  State, 
should  think  due,  under  like  circumstances,  to  the  representatives 
of  a  sister  State. 

That  concern  for  the  rights  and  sentiments  of  others,  which  is 
the  source  of  all  gentility,  is  indispensable  to  the  nobility  of  this 
body.  There  is  no  alloy  of  enmity  or  opposition  in  the  fraternal 
affection  with  which  the  delegation  from  New  York  greets  its  breth- 
ren upon  this  floor.  No  scaly  gauntlets,  with  joints  of  steel,  glove 
our  hands.  Our  pulses  will  throb  in  unison  with  our  brothers  from 
any  State  whose  chosen  son  shall  be  presented  to  the  consideration 
of  this  Convention. 

We  salute  the  rising  leader  from  Iowa,  whose  home  victories 
shine  upon  our  arms  like  a  sunburst  from  out  the  parting  clouds  of 
his  far  western  sky.  We  bow  to  the  venerable  sage  of  Illinois,  or 
the  rugged  foe  of  the  tariff  barons  who  stands  by  his  side.  We  ap- 
preciate the  capacity  which  has  organized  victory  against  the  over- 
whelming odds  in  Pennsylvania.  We  are  at  home  with  our  friends 
from  Indiana.  We  fully  sympathize  with  the  battle-stained  and  in- 
domitable leader  in  Ohio.  We  watch  with  anxiety  and  affection  the 
wonderful  power  for  organization  and  triumph,  which  characterizes 
the  Senator  from  Maryland,  and  our  hearts  burned  once  more  with 
the  immortal  fires  of  the  sunny  land  when  he  was  presented,  who, 
in  the  form  of  his  incomparable  genius,  evoked  from  the  humanity 
of  his  character  and  the  elevation  of  his  oratory  and  statesmanship, 
towers  in  the  vanguard  of  our  thickening  hosts  like  a  pillar  of  cloud 
by  day,  and  of  fire  by  night,  the  Senator  from  Kentucky. 

Whosoever  of  these  may  be  selected,  or  whatsoever  State  may 
succeed  in  this  Convention,  we  shall  join  in  the  exultation,  and 
bear  our  part  to  the  uttermost  in  the  ensuing  contest. 

This  is  the  spirit  in  which  we  meet  our  brethren,  and  this  is  the 
spirit  we  expect  to  be  reciprocated.  In  no  other  way  can  the  har- 
mony and  dignity  of  the  States  be  fostered  and  preserved  by  this 
Convention. 

In  thus  presenting  and  conceding  the  force  and  strength  of  the 
candidates  of  the  various  States,  you  will  not  understand  us  as 


114  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

abating  a  single  jot  from  our  own  preferences,  or  gainsaying  in  the 
slightest  degree  our  unclouded  conviction  that  the  fortunes  of  our 
party  will  rest  most  safely  in  the  custody  of  our  chosen  leader  in  our 
own  State.  Hill  defeated  Harrison  in  New  York,  in  1888,  by 
20,000,  and  under  conditions  less  encouraging  than  those  which 
confront  us  to  day,  and  he  can  repeat  the  triumph  with  redoubled 
effect.  This  is  the  conclusive  point.  Contemplate  the  ensuing 
controversy  from  whatever  standpoint  you  may  choose,  you  cannot 
escape  the  fact  that  our  State  is  the  battleground  of  the  campaign. 

Ours  is  the  coigne  of  vantage,  the  point  of  strategy,  the  spot  of 
victory  or  defeat.  We  appreciate  the  responsibility  of  our  position, 
and  would  speak  to  you  like  men  whose  blood  flows  in  their  words. 
The  common  enemy  is  strongly  entrenched  in  the  capital.  You  are 
the  generals  of  the  army  of  invasion,  in  grand  council  assembled. 
We  hail  from  Waterloo ;  and  we  fearlessly  proclaim  that  Hill  is  the 
Blucher  who  can  drive  the  Republican  chieftain  to  St.  Helena  in 
November. 

One  single  word,  fellow  delegates,  and  I  am  through.  I  want  to 
address  a  word  to  the  men  upon  this  floor  who  stand  with  us  in  our 
position.  It  is  this :  It  took  just  three  hundred  brave  men  to  stop 
the  Persians  at  the  Pass  of  Thermopylae  and  rescue  the  immortal 
plains  of  Greece.  If  we  have  three  hundred  votes  upon  this  floor, 
give  Providence  a  chance  to  make  a  President  of  the  United  States, 
right  here  and  now;  and  if  we  have  three  hundred  votes,  like  the 
Greeks,  let  us  stand  as  a  wall  of  living  and  impenetrable  fire. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  now  have  the 
pleasure  of  presenting  to  you  Hon.  John  R.  Fellows,  of  the  State  of 
New  York. 

ADDRESS    OF  HON.  JOHN    R.  FELLOWS. 

Mr.  President,  Fellow  Delegates — I  shall  not  weary  your  patience 
by  a  lengthened  speech,  and  in  this  vast  amphitheatre,  and  with  a 
broken  voice,  I  beg  of  you  the  courtesy  of  your  silence  and  atten- 
tion for  the  very  few  minutes  it  is  my  privilege  to  stand  in  your 
presence. 

The  honor  has  been  assigned  me,  in  the  delegation  of  which  I  am 
a  member,  of  seconding,  in  behalf  of  the  Democracy  of  New  York, 
the  nomination  of  David  Bennett  Hill,  just  made. 

It  has  been  my  privilege,  as  very  many  of  the  delegates  assembled 
before  me  know,  through  many  years  of  the  past,  through  service 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  115 

in  which  my  hairs  have  grown  gray  in  the  cause  of  Democracy,  to 
stand  in  the  presence  of  the  representatives  of  the  party  assembled 
in  its  national  council,  and  voice  the  sentiment  of  the  State  of  New 
York.  I  occupy  precisely  that  position  to-day.  With  one  unbroken 
voice,  reaching  from  the  cataract  upon  her  western  border  to  the 
ocean  which  washes  her  eastern  shore,  she  comes  here  demanding 
the  nomination  of  Governor  Hill  for  the  Presidency. 

In  the  past  there  have  been  differences,  and  here  and  there  some 
portion  of  our  people  have  dissented  in  view  from  the  great  over- 
whelming sentiment  of  the  State.  That  is  but  natural  and  to  be 
expected.  It  is  difficult  to  get  the  Democracy  of  as  great  a  State 
as  the  State  New  York  to  be  thoroughly  in  accord  in  opinion.  The 
oldest  man  who  sits  before  me  hardly  remembers  the  time  when 
New  York,  with  an  unbroken  front  and  a  united  voice,  has  come 
into  a  Democratic  Convention  making  to  their  brethren  of  all  the 
Union  the  appeal  which  New  York  makes  to-day. 

There  is  no  break  in  their  columns,  there  is  no  faltering  in  her 
expression.  Sirs,  I  am  one  of  those  Democrats  who,  like  my 
brother  and  colleague  who  has  just  left  this  platform,  believe  in  rely- 
ing upon  Democratic  sentiment,  Democratic  faith,  and  Democratic 
energy,  to  win  our  victories.  We  welcome,  with  gratitude  and  thank- 
fulness, accessions  from  every  quarter.  If  those  who  have  formerly 
acted  with  the  Republican  party,  now  animated  by  the  consciousness 
and  the  reproach  of  wrongdoing  in  the  past,  and  enlightened  as  to 
the  principles  and  purposes  of  our  party,  choose  to  ally  their  fate 
with  ours,  our  doors  and  our  arms  alike  are  open  to  receive  them  ; 
but  when  they  come  to  us  protesting  that  they  must  lead  and  guide, 
and  we  must  be  but  the  followers ;  when  they  come  to  us  telling  us 
that  if  we  will  give  them  a  certain  name  they  will  ally  themselves 
with  us,  and  if  we  give  them  any  other  they  will  range  themselves 
with  the  opposition,  I  tell  them  it  is  not  by  such  rewards  as  that 
that  we  seek  their  fellowship  or  their  association.  We  want  to  know, 
sir,  what  the  Democratic  demand  is,  first,  and  responding  to  that, 
we  have  seldom  failed  to  be  successful.  1  speak  in  disparagement 
of  no  other  candidate.  I  am  not  here  to  coin  epithets,  to  create 
divisions  or  differences  further  than  they  now  exist,  but  when  a 
State  like  New  York,  whose  vote  in  November  is  absolutely  essen- 
tial to  your  success,  comes  with  such  singular  unanimity  of  ex- 
pression and  purpose  as  animates  her  now,  we  have  a  right  to  appeal 
to  a  Democratic  Convention  to  deliberate  long  and  well  before  they 
fling  their  defiance  in  her  face. 


116  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  what  is  the  situation  ?  We  wel- 
come our  brothers  from  every  State  in  the  Union  ;  we  are  glad  to 
feel  the  beating  of  their  pulse,  to  touch  elbows  with  them  in  this 
great  council  of  our  party.  But,  after  all,  we  must  look  with  more 
of  deference,  it  seems  to  me,  to  those  States  from  which  we  expect 
to  realize  the  support  that  will  enable  us  to  win  in  November  than 
to  those  who  can  give  us  no  aid  in  the  final  battle  of  the  ballot-box. 

Where  will  you  turn,  on  the  night  of  November  next,  for  the 
news,  either  of  victory  or  defeat?  Where  will  the  heart,  the  ear 
and  the  expectation  of  every  Democrat  in  this  broad  Republic  be 
directed  after  the  voting  has  closed  and  the  ballots,  which  re- 
cord the  people's  will,  are  being  counted  ?  The  Democrats  of 
Pennsylvania  are  true,  earnest,  faithful,  patriotic  and  steadfast,  but 
you  know  now,  as  well  as  you  will  know  on  the  night  of  November 
8,  that  Pennsylvania,  by  many  thousands,  will  be  found  in  the  Re- 
publican colnmn.  You  will  look  to  New  York  to  decide  this  battle. 
Her  verdict  will  be  the  verdict  that  makes  victory  or  defeat. 

We  present  to  you  a  candidate  whose  name  is  a  synonym  for 
victory.  He  came  into  power  with  the  State  in  the  hands  of  our  polit- 
ical foes.  Its  Legislature  was  Republican ;  its  State  officers  were, 
many  of  them,  Republican.  With  ceaseless  vigilance,  with  tireless 
patience,  with  an  energy  that  never  faltered  and  a  devotion  that 
never  weakened,  with  steady  purpose  and  resolute  will,  this  strong, 
bold,  brave,  gallant  Democratic  leader  grappled  with  the  Republi- 
can foe  in  every  part  of  the  field,  until  last  January,  standing  in  the 
place  from  which  he  had  been  sent  as  Governor  to  the  higher 
councils  of  the  Nation,  he  turned  over  to  the  honored  chairman 
of  the  delegation  sitting  before  me  a  State  which  in  every  de- 
partment, in  every  office,  in  both  branches  of  the  Legislature,  in 
every  department  and  function  of  government,  was  solidly  Demo- 
cratic. 

Governor  Hill  organizes  victory.  What  he  has  done  in  the  State 
he  would  do  for  the  Nation.  Make  him  President,  give  him  four 
years  in  the  White  House,  and  there  would  not  be  enough  left  of 
the  Republican  party  to  sweep  up  and  carry  to  its  grave. 

I  do  not  wonder  they  hate  him.  I  do  not  wonder  that  through 
their  press  to-day,  and  through  the  voices  of  their  most  prominent 
leaders,  they  implore  a  Democratic  Convention  to  nominate  some 
other  than  Hill. 

Maligned,  traduced,  slandered,  villified  as  few  men  have  been, 
this  man,  to  those  who  know  him,  stands  before  the  country  as  he 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  117 

stands  in  the  affection  of  his  friends,  a  man  without  a  shadow  of  a 
stain,  either  upon  his  personal  or  his  official  career. 

Poor,  as  has  been  said,  in  the  world's  goods,  never  obedient  to 
the  demands  of  the  tempter,  never  swerved  from  the  path  of  official 
rectitude,  but  consistently  and  forever  pursuing  a  course  which 
built  up  his  party,  which  destroyed  its  foes,  this  man  has  made 
himself  the  idol  of  the  Democracy  of  New  York. 

One  thing  may  truthfully  be  said  of  David  B.  Hill ;  he  never  won 
a  victory  in  all  his  long  career  that,  when  it  was  won,  did  not  leave 
the  Democratic  party  infinitely  stronger  and  better  equipped  for 
the  succeeding  contest.  His  triumphs  have  ever  been  the  triumphs 
of  his  party  ;  and  to-day,  with  a  candidate  meeting  the  sentiments 
of  the  Democracy  of  New  York,  it  is  as  rock-ribbed  and  as  certain 
a  Democratic  State  as  Texas  or  Kentucky.  As  has  been  said,  the 
Governor  of  the  State  is  here,  the  Lieutenant-Governor,  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  its  Treasurer,  State  Comptroller,  Democratic  mem- 
bers of  Congress,  Democratic  members  of  the  Legislature,  all  telling 
you  from  every  part  of  the  State  of  the  danger  that  threatens  if  cer- 
tain action  be  taken,  and  of  the-  triumph  that  awaits  us  if  you  meet 
the  will  of  the  Democracy  of  New  York.  Gentlemen,  do  not  mis- 
understand me.  There  is  many  a  man  sitting  in  this  audience,  and 
whose  voice  has  filled  with  its  clamor  the  streets  of  Chicago  in  vitu- 
peration and  defamation  of  the  regular  delegates  who  sit  here,  whose 
voices  will  be  heard  no  more  until  election  day.  The  old  guard, 
the  solid  Democracy  of  the  State,  the  men  who  sit  before  you  there, 
representing  the  constituencies  from  which  they  come,  are  the  men 
which  you,  and  you,  and  you,  rely  upon  to  win  victories  in  New 
York,  if  any  are  to  be  won.  We  have  held  that  State  in  the  Demo- 
cratic line  for  nine  years  now.  We  have  fulfilled  well  the  trust 
which  the  people  reposed  in  us.  The  organization  has  been  efficient 
and  active  ;  the  people  have  responded  with  alacrity  to  its  demands, 
because  its  demands  have  met  their  sentiments ;  and  trust  us  now 
with  a  candidate  who  meets  the  requirements  of  the  New  York 
Democracy,  and  it  is  just  as  certain  as  that  the  sun  will  go  down  on 
the  night  of  November  8  that  we  will  give  you  the  thirty-six  elec- 
toral votes  of  that  State. 

I  leave  the  question  with  you.  (Cries  of  "Time,"  "Go  on.")  I 
am  not  to  be  at  all  disturbed  by  the  clamor  of  the  galleries.  (Cries 
of  "That's  right.")  The  Convention  is  yielding  a  most  respectful 
attention,  for  which  I  am  profoundly  grateful.  I  shall  not  occupy 
its  time  longer.  To  you,  who  sit  before  me,  and  not  to  the 


118  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

men  who  occupy  those  benches  (pointing  to  the  galleries)  the  duty 
is  entrusted  of  speaking  for  the  Democratic  party  of  this  Republic. 
Upon  you  the  stern  duty  and  solemn  obligation  rest. 

New  York  may  have  wearied  you  with  her  demands  in  the  past, 
but  New  York  comes  now  as  she  never  came  before,  in  a  united 
column,  pledged  by  the  strongest  ties  with  the  memory  of  past  vic- 
tories, with  present  achievements  and  triumphs  in  her  hands,  to  be 
shown  here  as  the  reward  of  her  labors.  New  York  comes  here 
now  asking  the  Democracy  of  the  Nation  to  intrust  to  her  keeping, 
in  one  more  National  battle,  the  interests,  the  responsibilities,  the 
sacred  trusts,  which  hitherto,  in  her  State  relation,  she  has  taken 
up  and  discharged  so  faithfully,  and  that  we  will  do,  as  God  lives 
and  reigns,  if  you  will  give  us  the  candidate.  But  the  sentiment  of 
New  York,  with  a  unanimity  which  never  before  was  known  in  our 
State,  demands — (a  cry  of  "  Give  us  Grover  Cleveland,"  and  an 
attempt  to  drown  the  voice  of  the  speaker  was  indulged  in,  mingled 
with  cries  of  "  Go  on.")  I  should  have  finished  some  time  ago, 
gentlemen,  if  the  galleries  had  not  undertaken  to  debate  the  ques- 
tion with  me. 

I  am  speaking  to  delegates  who  will  presently  be  called  upon  to 
vote.  I  know  the  solemn  sense  of  responsibility  they  feel.  I  ask 
them  to  heed  the  protestations  which  the  Democracy  of  New  York 
makes.  I  bid  you  look  upon  the  gallant  leaders  who,  in  all  the 
fights  of  the  past,  have  conducted  us  to  those  glorious  triumphs, 
which  have  thrilled  with  gratification  the  hearts  of  the  whole  Union, 
and  to  ask  you  once  more  to  leave  the  Democratic  banner  in  our 
hands  and  keeping. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  State  of  Connecticut. 

HON.  CARLOS  FRENCH,  of  Connecticut :  Connecticut  seconds 
the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland. 

The  States  of  Delaware,  Florida,  Georgia  and  Idaho, 
each  announced  that  they  had  no  candidate  to  present. 

When  the  State  of  Illinois  was  reached,  General  Ste- 
venson arose  and  said  : 

MR.  STEVENSON  :  Mr.  President,  the  delegation  from  Illinois 
have  selected  the  Hon.  A.  W.  Green,  one  of  its  members,  to  second 
the  nomination  of  one  of  the  candidates,  whose  name  has  been 
placed  before  this  Convention. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  have  the  honor  to 
present  Mr.  A.  W.  Green,  of  the  State  of  Illinois. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  119 

ADDRESS  OF  A.  W.  GREEN,  ESQ. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention: — "Illinois 
casts  forty-eight  votes  for  Grover  Cleveland." 

When  the  roll  of  States  of  this  Convention  shall  be  called  that 
will  be  the  answer  of  the  great  State  of  Illinois  ;  and  I  will  tell  you 
the  reason  why.  We  have  assembled  here  to-day  as  the  represent- 
atives of  the  Democracy  of  this  great  Union.  The  conventions 
of  the  various  States  and  Territories  have  met  and  selected  us  as 
their  representatives,  and  in  their  name  and  stead  to  perform  the 
work  of  this  Convention.  A  part,  and  the  most  important  part,  of 
that  work  is  to  select  a  candidate  for  the  high  office  of  President 
of  the  United  States.  It  is  a  fundamental  principle  of  the  Democ- 
racy that  the  will  of  the  people  must  prevail.  It  is  radically  opposed 
to  the  Republican  doctrine  that  there  should  be  a  government  of 
the  minority  and  for  the  minority.  That  distinguished  statesman, 
the  late  Governor  of  New  York,  who  has  been  placed  in  nomination 
here  to-night,  has  recently  in  a  letter  called  attention  to  this  Demo- 
cratic doctrine,  and  cited  in  illustration  of  it,  from  the  writings 
of  another  Democratic  statesman,  these  words  :  "  If  chosen  by  the 
suffrages  of  my  countrymen  to  attempt  this  work  I  shall,  with  God's 
help,  be  the  efficient  instrument  of  their  will."  These  are  the  words 
of  the  great  Democratic  statesman  whose  leadership  we  loved  in 
his  lifetime,  and  whose  memory  we  now  revere,  Samuel  J.  Tilden. 

We  have  been  chosen  by  the  suffrages  of  our  countrymen  to  per- 
form the  work  of  this  Convention.  If  we  can  discover  their  will  it 
is  our  duty  to  become  the  efficient  instrument  of  that  will.  Who 
that  looks  over  the  occurrences  of  the  last  few  months  can  fail  to 
be  convinced  that  in  this  mighty  contest  which  we  are  now  entering, 
the  Democratic  voters  of  this  country  have  chosen  as  their  leader, 
that  tower  of  strength  that  stood  four-square  to  all  the  winds  that 
blew — Grover  Cleveland. 

Why  is  this?  The  cause  of  tariff  reform  is  the  great  cause  of  the 
Democratic  party.  And  in  that  cause  the  Democratic  party  has 
chosen  Grover  Cleveland  as  its  leader.  That  cause  must  be  fought 
to  the  end.  We  have  fought  it  for  years.  It  is  old,  but,  as  Grover 
Cleveland  himself  said  in  his  speech  in  Rhode  Island,  the  Ten 
Commandments  are  thousands  of  years  old ;  but  they  and  the 
doctrine  of  tariff  reform  will  be  preached  and  taught  until  mankind, 
and  the  Republican  party  shall  heed  the  injunction,  "Thou  shall 
not  steal." 


120  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Give  us  Grover  Cleveland,  gentlemen,  as  your  candidate,  and  in 
November  we  will  bring  the  State  of  Illinois  into  the  Democratic 
column — aye,  in  Cook  County  alone,  with  such  a  cause  and  such  a 
man,  we  can  redeem  the  great  State  of  Illinois. 

When  the  State  of  Indiana  was  called  Mr.  Morss 
arose  and  addressed  the  Chairman  as  follows  : 

In  behalf  of  the  entire  delegation  of  Indiana  the  Hon.  William 
E.  English  will  very  briefly  second  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Cleveland. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  have  the  honor  of  introducing  to  you  the  Hon. 
William  E.  English,  of  the  State  of  Indiana. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.   WILLIAM    E.    ENGLISH. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention : — I  desire  to 
say  in  the  outset  that  I  am  here  not  only  to  represent  the  Indiana 
delegation,  but  I  am  here  to  render  an  explanation  to  this  Conven- 
tion, and  I  promise  you  that  as  the  hour  is  late,  I  will  detain  you 
but  three  or  four  minutes  at  the  outside. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  it  was  the  will 
and  the  desire  of  the  Indiana  delegation  that  that  well-beloved  son 
of  Indiana,  the  Hon.  Daniel  W.  Voorhees,  should  appear  when 
Indiana's  name  was  called,  to  second  the  nomination  of  a  great 
name,  which  has  been  already  presented  to  this  Convention;  but, 
Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  my  unpleasant  duty  to  announce  to  the  Conven- 
tion that  that  distinguished  Democrat,  who  is  loved  and  honored 
wherever  the  word  Democracy  is  known,  is  confined  to  his  room  by 
serious  indisposition,  and  will  not  be  able  to  be  present  at  this 
session  of  the  Convention,  and  I  will  read  to  you  a  letter  which  he 
addressed  to  the  delegation  from  Indiana,  for  he  is  now,  as  always, 
loyal  to  the  interests  of  that  great  State,  and  has  written  to  us  a 
communication  expressive  of  his  opinion  of  the  situation.  It  is  as 
follows  : 

CHICAGO,  June  22,  1892. 
HON.  JOHN  E.  LAMB, 

MY  DEAR  SIR  : — I  am  so  indisposed  to-day  that  my  physician  strongly  advises 
me  against  going  into  the  Convention,  and  especially  against  making  the  exertion 
necessary  to  a  speech.  As  you  are  fully  aware,  I  would  most  gladly  carry  out  the 
wishes  of  the  delegation  in  seconding  Mr.  Cleveland's  nomination.  This  duty 
must  be  performed  by  some  one  from  our  State,  and  it  rests  with  the  delegation  to 
make  the  proper  selection. 


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I  sincerely  trust  that  our  portion  in  regard  to  this  matter  may  be  left  in  no 
doubt  whatever,  and  that  the  Convention  may  be  fully  assured  that  the  Democracy 
of  Indiana  accepts  and  indorses  Mr.  Cleveland's  nomination  without  reservation 
or  hesitation.  Let  the  Convention  also  be  assured  that  it  is  our  firm  resolve  to  face 
the  enemy  in  our  State  in  an  unbroken  line  of  battle,  and  to  win  a  decisive  and 
glorious  victory  in  November. 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

D.  W.  VOORHEES. 

At  the  conclusion  of  the  reading  of  the  letter  from 
Senator  Voorhees,  Mr.  English  further  addressed  the 
Convention  as  follows  : 

Now,  Mr.  Chairman,  the  delegation  from  Indiana  did  me  the  high 
honor  to  select  me  to  take  Mr.  Voorhees'  place  in  this  regard ;  but, 
Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  it  would  be  a 
bold  man  who,  at  any  time  or  under  any  circumstances,  in  any  great 
forum,  where  eloquence  and  oratory  and  ability  were  important 
factors,  would  attempt  to  take  the  place  of  Daniel  W.  Voorhees. 

I  recognize  my  inability  to  do  so,  and  I  shall  not  attempt  to, 
further  than  to  say,  on  the  part  of  the  united  delegation  from  Indi- 
ana, that  in  fulfillment  of  the  sentiment  of  the  citizens  of  Indiana, 
as  expressed  in  that  letter  of  our  great  leader,  in  fulfillment  of  our 
duty  to  our  conscience  as  Democrats,  in  fulfillment  of  our  duty 
to  the  instructions  of  the  gallant  Democracy  of  Indiana  in  State 
convention  assembled,  in  fulfillment  of  our  duty  to  the  rank  and 
file  of  that  Indiana  Democracy,  on  behalf  of  the  united  delegation 
from  that  State,  on  behalf  of  the  Democracy  of  the  State  that 
knew  and  loved  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  I  desire  to  second  the 
nomination  of  him  who  has  already  been  chosen  first  in  the  hearts 
of  the  rank  and  file  of  the  Democracy  of  this  Nation,  that  great  foe 
to  monopoly,  that  great  defender  of  honesty,  that  great  leader  of 
leaders,  that  great  Democrat  of  Democrats,  honest  Grover  Cleveland. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  State  of  Iowa. 

MR.  J.  H.  SHIELDS,  of  Iowa:  Iowa  has  selected  the  Hon.  John 
F.  Duncombe  to  present  to  this  Convention  her  candidate  for  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  States. 

THE  CHAIR:  I  present  to  you  the  Hon.  John  F.  Duncombe,  of 
the  State  of  Iowa. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.    JOHN    F.    DUNCOMBE. 

Mr.  President  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — To-night  for 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  American  Republic,  the  name  of 
a  man  whose  home  is  west  of  the  Mississippi  River  will  be  presented 


122  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

to  a  Democratic  National  Convention  for  nomination  to  the  exalted 
position  of  President  of  the  United  States. 

Heretofore  the  Northern,  the  Southern,  the  Eastern  and  the 
Middle  States  have  furnished  all  but  one  of  the  Presidential  nomi- 
nees of  the  Democratic  party. 

For  thirty-five  years  the  Republican  party  has  chosen  all  but  one 
of  its  candidates  from  the  West,  and  the  eastern  candidate  was 
defeated.  For  thirty-five  years  the  Democratic  party  has  chosen 
all  its  candidates  from  the  East,  and  during  that  time  only  one  Demo- 
cratic President  has  been  inaugurated.  For  over  a  quarter  of  a 
century  no  man  residing  outside  of  the  limits  of  the  Empire  State 
has  had  the  honor  of  a  Democratic  Presidential  nomination.  If 
the  Democracy  of  New  York  were  united  to-day,  her  honored 
statesmen  might  furnish  Presidential  candidates  for  a  quarter  of  a 
century  to  come,  and  the  Democracy  of  the  greater  Northwest  and 
the  great  Southwest  would  not  complain  or  seek  to  pluck  one  honor 
from  the  brilliant  stars  which  New  York  has  placed  in  the  crown  of 
the  Republic. 

All  Democrats  deeply  regret  that  there  is  dissension  within 
her  borders,  which  they  fear,  if  a  candidate  should  be  nominated 
from  New  York,  would  imperil  Democratic  success ;  and  they 
know  that  there  is  a  country  west  of  the  Mississippi  River,  pur- 
chased and  made  part  of  the  Union  by  Thomas  Jefferson,  the 
father  of  Democracy,  where  there  is  but  one  Presidential  candidate  ; 
a  country  forever  honored  by  the  bravery  of  the  gallant  sons  of  the 
South,  who  fought  in  its  defense  under  the  lion-hearted  leader  of 
Democracy,  Andrew  Jackson. 

There  is  a  land,  the  great  Empire  of  the  Gulf,  whose  brave  sons 
made  the  name  of  the  Lone  Star  State  immortal  in  their  heroic 
struggle  for  liberty,  where  forever  enshrined  in  memory  are  the 
names  of  those  who  were  baptized  in  blood  at  the  Alamo]  whose 
deeds  stand  forth  above  the  bravest  acts  of  men  like  mighty -mount- 
ains on  the  plain.  There  is  a  land,  fragrant  with  flowers  and  orange 
groves,  where  the  golden  rays  of  the  setting  sun  are  deflected  from 
the  waves  of  the  Pacific.  There  is  a  land  where  the  glistening, 
snow-capped  mountain  peaks  of  Nevada,  Colorado,  Wyoming, 
Idaho,  Montana  and  the  Dakotas  sparkle  with  their  silver  and  gold. 
There  is  a  land,  the  heart  of  America,  where  hundreds  of  millions 
of  bushels  of  wheat  and  corn,  and  millions  of  cattle  furnish  food 
for  our  fathers  and  mothers  in  the  east.  A  land  filled  with  schools, 
colleges  and  universities  unsurpassed. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  123 

In  that  land,  west  of  the  Mississippi,  is  a  State  larger  than  New 
York,  surrounded  by  her  elder  sisters,  Missouri  and  Illinois,  and 
her  younger  sisters,  Nebraska  and  Minnesota  ;  a  State  bordered  on 
the  east  and  on  the  west  by  the  father  and  mother  of  waters,  and 
held  in  their  embrace ;  a  State  whose  springs  and  brooks  and  rivers 
flow  on  unceasingly  to  the  Southern  Gulf,  emblematic  of  the  eternal 
love  which  should  forever  bind  in  unity  the  dwellers  in  the  great 
Mississippi  Valley.  In  that  State  there  lives  a  noble  son  of  New 
York,  honored  by  an  election  to  her  Legislature  over  a  third  of  a 
century  ago  ;  a  son  worthy  and  well  qualified  for  the  highest  honor 
which  this  great  intelligent  Convention  can  place  upon  him  ;  a  son 
who,  born  and  reared  in  poverty,  accustomed  to  hard  labor,  has 
thereby  learned  to  sympathize  with  the  poor  and  distressed,  with  the 
laborers  of  the  land.  The  name  of  that  noble  son  of  New  York, 
and  adopted  son  of  Iowa,  isuHorace  Boies. 

In  the  days  of  Lincoln  he  was  a  Republican.  But  at  that  time, 
and  until  1880,  the  Republicans  of  Iowa  were  as  ardent  advocates 
of  tariff  reform  as  are  the  Democrats  of  to-day.  Year  after  year 
they  met  in  their  State  convention  and  resolved  in  favor  of  a  reve- 
nue tariff,  but  never  before  that  time  in  favor  of  a  protective  tariff. 
At  that  time  there  was  no  prominent  Republican  in  Iowa  who 
favored  a  protective  tariff.  Grimes,  Kirkwood  and  Allison  were 
then  all  tariff  reformers. 

When  the  Iowa  Republicans,  in  1880,  deserted  their  tariff  princi- 
ples, and  Iowa  followed  the  worshipers  of  protection,  and  when,  by 
sumptuary  legislation  in  Iowa,  they  confiscated  millions  of  dollars' 
worth  of  property  without  any  compensation,  our  candidate  refused 
to  follow  his  party,  and  united  with  the  Democratic  party.  He  did 
this  without  any  hope  of  political  reward.  He  did  it  when  the 
Democratic  party  in  Iowa  had  been  defeated  by  a  majority  for  Gar- 
field  of  over  78,000.  He  did  it  when  Iowa  was  the  banner  Repub- 
lican State.  He  was  led  to  this  course  solely  by  the  courage  of  his 
convictions,  by  his  conscience  and  his  innate  love  of  justice. 

From  that  time  he  has  fought  unceasingly  for  the  cause  of  De- 
mocracy. His  eminent  legal  talents  led  the  leaders  of  the  party  to 
offer  him  the  nomination  for  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Iowa, 
and  his  name  has  been  frequently  mentioned  for  offices  ;  but  since 
he  came  to  Iowa,  and  until  1889,  he  has  declined  to  accept  any 
nomination,  and  only  consented  to  accept  the  nomination  for  Gov- 
ernor then  at  the  urgent  solicitation  of  his  friends,  and  when  chosen 
by  acclamation.  After  receiving  this  nomination,  his  sincere,  logical, 


124  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

powerful,  truthful  and  convincing  arguments  brought  dismay  to  the 
intolerant  bosses  of  the  Republican  party  all  over  Iowa.  He  abused 
no  one,  but  was  the  subject  of  constant  abuse.  He  kindled  the 
smoldering  embers  of  Democracy  into  a  blaze  of  enthusiasm  on 
every  hill-top  and  in  every  valley  in  the  State. 

His  scimiter  flashed  at  the  head  of  an  army  of  Iowa  Democrats, 
who  had  fought  more  than  thirty  battles,  only  to  be  overpowered 
by  numbers,  but  never  conquered.  He  infused  new  courage  in  the 
hearts  of  all  his  followers,  and  the  Iowa  Democracy,  by  the  aid  of 
tariff  reformers  and  the  opponents  of  sumptuary  laws,  who  have 
since  become  Democrats,  routed  the  enemy  and  placed  the  laurel 
wreath  of  victory  upon  the  head  of  their  hero,  Horace  Boies. 

Again,  in  1890,  his  voice  was  heard  rallying  the  forces  of  Democ- 
racy against  the  iniquities  of  the  obnoxious  McKinley  law,  against 
intolerance,  against  sumptuary  legislation,  against  paternal  govern- 
ment, against  centralization,  against  that  tyrannical,  kingly  invention, 
the  force  bill,  and  again  the  pennant  of  Democracy  waived  aloft  in 
victory. 

In  1891  he  was  again,  by  acclamation,  placed  at  the  head  of  the 
Democratic  column  for  re-election  ;  and  in  the  most  stubbornly 
fought  political  battle  that  Iowa  ever  witnessed,  when  22,000  more 
votes  were  polled  than  had  ever  been  polled  before  in  any  State 
election,  and  nearly  that  number  more  than  in  any  Presidential 
election,  his  majority  for  Governor  was  increased  from  6,523  to 
8,216,  and  the  entire  Democratic  ticket  was  elected.  This  increase 
in  Democratic  votes  came,  not  from  the  residents  of  the  cities,  but 
from  the  farmers  of  Iowa,  who  were  tired  of  being  impoverished  by 
constantly  contributing  to  the  wealth  of  others  under  the  false  pre- 
tense of  raising  money  to  pay  the  burdens  of  governmental  tax- 
ation. 

Under  his  administration  the  business  of  the  State  has  been  c<Jn- 
ducted  systematically,  successfully,  honestly  and  satisfactorily.  He 
has  proven  his  eminent  executive  ability.  He  has,  by  his  acts, 
silenced  the  vituperation  of  his  political  traducers,  and  stands  to- 
day at  the  head  of  a  united  Democracy  in  Iowa,  as  aggressive,  as 
courageous  and  as  heroic  as  the  noble  Democracy  of  Texas,  Mis- 
souri, Kentucky  or  any  other  State.  Among  the  great  leaders  of 
the  party,  no  one  has  sounder  views  on  the  tariff,  or  on  any  other 
political  question.  His  ideas  are  those  of  a  plain,  old-fashioned 
Jeffersonian  Democrat.  He  is  by  nature  a  Democrat,  as  well  as  a 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  125 

Democrat  from  principle.  His  writings,  his  speeches  and  his  mes- 
sages prove  him  to  be  a  statesman  standing  at  the  very  head  of  the 
list  of  eminent  men  of  the  Nation.  His  firmness,  his  judgment,  his 
courage,  his  intelligence,  his  honesty,  his  easy  assimilation  with  the 
masses,  his  power  to  make  men  feel  his  brotherly  affection,  his 
power  to  give  confidence  to  all  his  followers,  well  fit  him  as  a  great 
leader.  Iowa  Democrats  love  him  for  the  friends  he  has  made,  and 
because  he  has  led  them  through  the  wilderness  into  the  promised 
land. 

When  our  Democratic  fathers  are  convincing  themselves  that  the 
right  to  nominate  a  Democratic  candidate  for  President  from  the 
East  is  an  exclusive  God-given  right,  let  them  remember  that  their 
western  sons  are  of  age  ;  and  let  them  do  justice  to  their  honored 
names  by  doing  justice  to  their  sons. 

Our  candidate  has  no  one  to  fry  fat  from  lusty  protective  tariff  bene- 
ficiaries to  corrupt  voters,  but  around  his  head  beams  a  bright  halo 
of  honor,  of  virtue  and  truth,  which  will,  like  a  pillar  of  fire  in  the 
night-time  of  Republican  misrule,  lead  a  united  host  of  Democrats 
and  liberal  independent  voters  to  the  glorious  day  of  victory.  If 
nominated,  as  a  laborer,  he  will  rally  the  laboring  men  of  the  coun- 
try. As  a  practical  farmer,  he  will  rally  the  farmers  all  over  the 
land.  His  conservatism  will  bring  to  his  standard  the  solid  business 
men  of  the  Nation.  New  England,  New  York,  Pennsylvania  and 
New  Jersey,  as  they  study  the  conservative  character  of  our  candi- 
date, and  Democrats  all  over  the  Union  will  thank  God  that  under 
our  leader  they  can  fight  the  battle  of  tariff  reform  unitedly. 

In  moving  the  nomination  of  the  candidate  of  the  Iowa  Democ- 
racy, I  plead  for  one  who,  if  nominated,  will  be  supported  by  every 
Democrat  and  thousands  of  independent  voters  ;  I  plead  for  the 
champion  of  labor,  the  champion  of  the  farmers  of  the  Nation.  I 
plead  for  the  rights  of  that  great  country  west  of  the  Mississippi,  in 
exjent  over  one-half  of  the  Nation,  that  never  before  has  had  a 
Democratic  Presidential  candidate.  I  plead  for  the  Democracy  of 
eighteen  States  and  Territories  of  that  vast  empire.  I  plead  for  the 
gallant  men  of  Texas,  Arkansas,  Louisiana  and  Missouri,  who  never 
falter  in  their  Democracy.  I  plead  for  a  candidate  whose  nomina- 
tion will  insure  the  electoral  vote  of  Iowa  to  the  Democratic  party. 
I  plead  for  harmony  and  for  Democratic  victory. 

The  delegates  to  this  Convention  will  make  an  irreparable  mistake 
if  they  forget  that  before  November  there  will  be  a  calm  of  the 
surging  billows  of  this  great  ocean  of  enthusiasm,  during  which  calm 


126  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

the  voters,  in  their  quiet  homes,  at  their  firesides,  in  the  midst  of 
their  families,  and  with  their  neighbors  and  friends,  will  discuss  and 
decide  the  Presidential  question  ;  during  which  calm  every  voter 
will  consider  who  is  nearest  his  own  heart,  who  is  most  in  sympathy 
with  his  own  condition,  and  who  will  best  fill  the  executive  office  in 
that  plain,  honest,  old-fashioned  Democratic  way 'which  the  people 
most  dearly  love. 

But  this  Convention  will  make  no  mistake  if  it  shall  select  as  its 
nominee  that  man  of  correct  habits,  of  honest  purposes,  of  patriotic 
motives,  of  clear  cultivated  mental  vision,  of  sterling  integrity,  of 
calm  deliberation  and  judgment,  of  manly  and  moral  courage,  of 
deep  thought  and  study,  of  unflagging  industry;  that  careful,  pains- 
taking man,  without  spot  or  blemish  ;  that  noble  son  of  the  East, 
and  adopted  son  of  the  West,  who  has  never  been  defeated,  who 
has  no  foes  in  his  own  party  to  conciliate,  who  has  no  errors  to  cor- 
rect and  no  explanations  or  apologies  to  make,  and  who  will,  if 
nominated,  fill  the  struggling,  fighting  Democracy  of  Iowa,  the 
great  West  and  the  entire  Nation  with  unconquerable  courage ;  that 
born  peerless  leader,  who  will  in  November,  if  nominated,  march  at 
the  head  of  an  army  of  7,000,000  of  voters  with  50,000  waving  banners 
under  the  triumphal  arch,  and  on  whose  brow  will  again  be  placed 
the  wreath  of  victory,  whom  Iowa  now  nominates,  honest  Horace 
Boies. 

After  Mr.  Duncombe's  speech  was  concluded  the  roll 
call  was  continued,  and  the  State  of  Kansas  was  called. 
Ex-Governor  Click  responded  as  follows  : 

The  delegation  from  Kansas  has  selected  one  of  her  distinguished 
citizens,  Mr.  Thomas  D.  Fenelon,  to  second  the  nomination  of  one 
of  the  candidates  already  placed  before  the  Convention. 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  THOMAS  D.  FENELON. 

Having  been  thirty-six  hours  at  hard  work  in  preparing  the  mag- 
nificent set  of  resolutions  adopted  to-day,  my  voice  is  in  no  condition 
to  make  a  speech.  And  the  hour  warns  me  that  you  are  in  no 
temper  to  listen  to  a  speech.  Therefore  I  will  make  no  speech. 

Only  one  thought  occurs  to  me,  in  looking  over  the  magnificent 
assemblage  of  delegates,  this  body  of  great  men  and  fair  women  that 
grace  our  Convention  with  their  presence,  I  am  reminded  of  a  Sen- 
ator from  our  State  who  has  denounced  us  as  the  street-walkers  of 
the  century.  Are  you  here  ? 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  127 

Let  me  make  one  remark  in  passing  and  tell  you  that  that  dis- 
tinguished gentleman  is  now  a  pedestrian  himself.  I  will  not  say  a 
street-walker.  He  is,  in  his  own  felicitous  language,  "  a  statesman 
without  a  job ;"  and  about  the  only  Republican  statesman  of  late 
years  that  has  not  had  a  job  of  some  kind  or  other.  Now,  gentle- 
men, I  am  directed  by  the  courtesy  of  my  fellow  delegates,  and  by 
the  unanimous  vote  of  a  hundred  and  twenty  thousand  Democrats 
in  Kansas,  to  second  the  nomination  of  the  distinguished  son  of 
New  York  and  Ex-President  of  the  United  States. 

Gentlemen,  but  one  word ;  time  is  up  now,  but  one  word.  Let 
me  make  a  prediction.  That  if  we  are  true — although  I  am  no 
prophet  nor  son  of  a  prophet,  I  am  going  to  indulge  in  the  prediction, 
that  the  ides  of  next  November  will  bring  to  us  glad  tidings  of  great 
joy,  like  those  that  were  brought  to  the  hills  of  Bethlehem  long  ago. 
I  thank  you,  gentlemen. 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  call  .of  States  with  Ken- 
tucky. 

The  chairman  of  the  Kentucky  delegation,  Hon.  C. 
J.  Bronston,  said  : 

Kentucky  has  no  candidate  to  present  to  this  Convention ;  but 
the  friends  of  Mr.  Cleveland  in  that  delegation  have  selected  Hon. 
J.  A.  McKenzie  to  second  his  nomination  ;  and  the  friends  of  Mr. 
Boies  have  selected  Hon.  Henry  Watterson  to  second  his  nomination. 

The  Hon.  James  A;  McKenzie  declined  to  take  the 
platform,  but  standing  upon  his  chair  in  the  Kentucky 
delegation,  spoke  as  follows  : 


ADDRESS    OF   HON.    JAMES   A.    MCKENZIE. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention: — I  am  not 
going  to  make  any  lengthy  speech,  and  I  want  to  say  in  the  outset 
that  I  trust  that  if  I  address  this  Convention  longer  than  three  min- 
utes I  sincerely  hope  that  some  honest,  tired  Democrat  will  suspend 
my  cadaver  from  one  of  the  cross-beams  of  this  highly  artistic  but 
somewhat  leaky  auditorium. 

I  arise  here  for  the  purpose  of  seconding  the  nomination  of  a 
distinguished  New  Yorker,  one  whose  nomination  has  already  been 
made.  (A  voice,  "Which  one?) 


128  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  MCKENZIE:  You  just  wait  a  minute ;  of  one  whose  nomi- 
nation has  already  been  made  by  a  convention  larger  and  more 
potential  than  this  ;  a  convention  consisting  of  unbought  and  un- 
purchasable  Democrats  ;  a  convention  remote  from  town,  unawed 
by  influence,  and  unbribed  by  gain.  A  convention  whose  influence 
will  reach  from  Rainy  Lake  to  Key  West,  and  from  Androscoggin 
to  Yuba  Dam.  Pardon  the  force  and  seeming  profanity  of  the  last 
geographical  allusion  ;  but  all  over  this  country  the  Democrats  are 
realizing  that  Mr.  Cleveland  is  the  honest,  earnest,  persistent,  defiant 
and  relentless  opponent  of  that  axiom  of  the  Republican  party 
which  announces  that  in  the  sweat  of  the  hired  man's  face  thou 
shalt  eat  bread.  (Laughter,  noise  and  confusion,  mingled  with  cries 
of  "time.") 

Now,  one  moment;  if  you  knew  how  many  good  things  I  had  to 
say,  you  would  keep  as  quiet  as  a  dormouse  in  a  prayer-meeting. 
Do  you  want  me  to  stop  ?  (Cries  of  "no,  go  on.") 

The  American  people  believe  that  Mr.  Cleveland  is  the  persistent 
advocate  of  everything  on  God's  green  earth  that  is  right,  and  the 
persistent  opponent  of  everything  that  is  wrong ;  and  that  he  wants 
to  see  the  blessings  of  civilization  and  religious  liberty  prevail  in 
this  land ;  and  if  you  can  pick  a  flaw  in  that  platform,  why  just 
start  in. 

The  Republican  party  has  levied  a  tax  upon  everything  that  enters 
into  the  consumption  of  the  average  household  except  air,  sunshine 
and  water ;  and  the  only  reason  they  have  not  taxed  those  articles 
is  because  nobody  in  New  England  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  any  one  of  them. 

Mr.  Chairman,  if  anybody  in  New  England  ever  sets  up  a  sun- 
shine factory,  they  will  start  a  report  that  God  Almighty  is  making 
an  indifferent  article  of  sunshine,  and  that  it  is  militating  against 
the  dignity  of  American  labor.  I  represent  to-day,  allow  me  to  say 
in  conclusion,  I  represent,  in  my  judgment,  more  than  half  of  the 
unterrified  Democrats  of  Kentucky,  a  State,  thank  God,  where  a 
damn  lie  is  the  first  lick ;  a  State  that  produces  a  kind  of  liquor  so 
good  as  to  make  intemperance  a  virtue  ;  a  State  that  produces  a 
line  of  horses  so  fast  as  to  keep  the  wind  in  perpetual  jealousy,  and 
to  make  lightning  look  like  a  puling  paralytic.  Representing,  Mr. 
Chairman,  more  than  half  of  the  Democrats  of  that  great  State,  it 
affords  me  great  pleasure  to  say  that  on  every  hillside,  in  every  val- 
ley of  that  magnificent  commonwealth,  where  the  sun  delights  to 
kiss  her  cheek  like  a  lover,  everybody,  male  and  female,  including 
Indians  not  taxed,  is  for  Grover  Cleveland. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  129 

Henry  Watterson  stepped  upon  the  platform,  and  the 
Chair  said: 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  present  to  you  the  Hon.  Henry  Watterson,  of 
Kentucky. 

ADDRESS    OF   HON.    HENRY   WATTERSON. 

I  second  the  nomination  of  Horace  Boies,  of  Iowa,  and  bear  wit- 
ness to  the  truth  of  all  that  has  been  said  of  him  by  his  friend  and 
neighbor,  Judge  Buncombe.  He  comes  from  a  State  which  stands 
behind  him  as  rock-ribbed  and  impregnable  as  the  everlasting  hills. 
He  represents  a  section  which  henceforward  the  Democratic  party 
must  look  to  for  generous  inspirations  and  increasing  majorities. 
Thrice  has  he  led  the  legions  of  Democracy  to  victory  in  the  Re- 
publican stronghold,  and  if  he  be  chosen  by  this  Convention  to 
bear  our  standard,  he  will  plant  it  over  the  roof  of  the  White  House 
and  rivet  it  to  the  dome  of  the  National  Capitol. 

When  the  State  of  Louisiana  was  called,  E.  B.  Krutt- 
schmitt  addressed  the  Chairman  as  follows : 

THE  CHAIRMAN  :  The  State  of  Louisiana  has  no  name  to  present 
to  the  Convention,  but  one  of  her  delegates  will  ask  the  privilege 
to  second  one  of  the  nominations  already  made. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  present  to  you 
the  Hon.  T.  J.  Kernan,  of  Louisiana. 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  THOMAS  J.  KERNAN. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — If  you  inter- 
rupt me,  I  will  tell  you  a  story,  so  don't  do  it.  Louisiana  has  no 
favorite  son  to  present  for  the  highest  office  within  the  gift  of  the 
people  of  the  Republic,  but  it  is  no  doubtful  State,  and  it  is  content 
to  guarantee  beyond  the  shadow  of  a  doubt  the  support  of  its  eight 
Electoral  votes  to  the  nominee  of  this  Convention,  no  matter  who 
he  may  be.  But  speaking  for  a  number  of  its  delegates  upon  this 
floor,  and  speaking  for  a  majority  of  the  Democrats  of  the  Demo- 
cratic district  which  I  represent,  and  speaking,  as  I  believe,  for  a 
majority  of  the  Democrats  of  Democratic  Louisiana,  I  claim  the 
privilege  of  seconding  the  nomination  of  one  whose  name  has  been 
placed  before  you.  Louisiana,  that  bright  and  sweet  State,  the 
land  of  sunshine  and  of  sugar,  recognizes  in  him,  one  who  has 
made  a  special  study  of  the  corn  fields  in  the  West.  And  she  who 

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130  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

is  well  versed  in  the  study  of  cotton  fields  of  the  South,  is  well  con- 
tent to  intrust  in  his  hands  the  guardianship  of  tariff  reform  and  of 
all  the  great  principles  of  the  grand  old  Democratic  party,  as 
announced  in  the  magnificent  platform  adopted  by  this  Convention 
to-night.  I  second  the  nomination  of  Gov.  Horace  Boies,  of  Iowa. 

The  Secretary  called  the  States  of  Maine  and  Mary- 
land, which  had  no  candidates  to  offer. 

When  Massachusetts  was  called,  Hon.  Patrick  A. 
Collins  was  recognized  by  the  Chair. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  need  hardly  to 
introduce  to  a  National  Democratic  Convention,  Hon.  Patrick 
A.  Collins,  of  Massachusetts. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.    PATRICK   A.    COLLINS. 

If  my  worn  voice  were  on  its  last  errand  the  request  conveyed 
by  it  to  every  delegate  would  be  this  :  "  When  you  are  voting  for  a 
candidate  for  President  heed  the  voice  not  of  locality,  but  the  voice 
of  the  Democracy  of  the  whole  Union." 

I  belong  to  that  class  of  Democrats,  fortunately  very  large,  who 
are  for  and  not  against  some  other  Democrat.  I  am  a  construc- 
tionist  and  not  a  destroyer.  I  believe  that  every  State  in  this  Union 
contains  at  least  one  Democrat  fit  to  be  President  of  the  United 
States  ;  and  I  deplore  the  malignity  with  which  certain  eminent  gen- 
tlemen not  very  far  from  the  State  of  New  York  have  been  hounded 
and  misrepresented  by  the  fool- friends  of  other  people.  I  believe, 
as  I  say,  that  every  State,  including  my  own  State,  too,  contains  at 
least  one  man  large  enough  to  be  President  of  the  United  States ; 
but  there  stands  forward  one  man  taller  than  all  the  rest.  Quarrel 
with  the  sentiment  if  you  please,  analyze  the  reason  and  reject  it 
because  you  cannot  solve  it,  as  it  eludes  analysis,  and  yet  stronger 
than  any  man  in  this  or  any  preceding  generation  in  the  hearts  of 
the  Democracy  of  the  country,  is  the  name  and  fame  of  Grover 
Cleveland.  My  friend  from  New  York  who  made  the  proposing 
speech  implored  some  300  supposititious  delegates  to  stand  together 
as  the  Greeks  stood  together  in  the  pass  at  Thermopylae.  Does  he 
mean  to  say  that  the  other  600  here  bearing  commissions  from 
Democratic  constituents  are  Persians? 

I  address  myself  not  to  300  but  to  900  Democratic  delegates.  I 
do  not  argue  with  a  faction.  I  address  myself  to  the  entire  Democ- 
racy. To-day  we  have  several  candidates,  but  to-morrow  we  shall 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  131 

have  but  one ;  and  upon  whomsoever  your  choice  falls,  I  believe 
that  a  united  Democracy  will  see  that  he  bears  the  title  of  President 
of  the  United  States.  And  among  them  all,  friends,  when  you  go 
to  the  people,  dismiss  locality  and  forget  individual  friendship,  and 
you  will  find  that  ninety-nine  men  out  of  one  hundred  in  the  United 
States  of  America,  taken  altogether,  will  ask  you  to  give  them  a 
chance  to  right  the  wrong  and  rectify  the  mistake  made  four  years 
ago,  by  voting  for  Grover  Cleveland. 

The  State  of  Michigan  was  called  by  the  Secretary 
and  Mr.  Fisher,  of  the  Michigan  delegation,  said  : 

The  State  of  Michigan  will  cast  twenty-eight  votes  for  the  nom- 
inee of  this  Convention.  It  has  no  name  to  propose. 

The  roll-call  proceeded,  and  Mr.  Wilson  responded 
for  Minnesota,  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman :  I  am  directed  by  the  delegates  in  this  Conven- 
tion from  the  State  of  Minnesota,  to  give  expression  to  the  almost 
unanimous  wish  and  sentiment  of  the  Democrats  of  that  State,  by 
seconding  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland. 

In  response  to  the  roll-call,  the  Chairman  of  the 
Mississippi  delegation  said  that  the  State  had  no  candi- 
date to  present. 

The  State  of  Missouri  being  called,  Hon.  Wm.  H. 
Wallace,  of  that  delegation,  responded  as  follows  : 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.    WILLIAM    H.   WALLACE. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Delegates  of  this  great  Convention  : — Men 
come  and  men  go.  Parties  and  governments  rise  and  fall.  The 
very  stars  leap  from  their  sockets  in  the  skies  and  rush  on  to  ruin 
in  their  trackless  voyage.  The  sun  is  often  eclipsed,  and  once  we 
are  told  it  stood  still.  But  the  Democratic  majority  of  grand  old 
Missouri  goes  on  forever.  No  man  or  devil  can  divide  it;  no  defeat 
can  conquer  it  j  no  sophistry  can  change  it ;  no  money  can  buy  it. 
It  is  as  fixed  and  as  resplendent  in  the  political  heavens  as  Venus, 
as  warlike  as  Mars,  as  resistless  as  Jupiter.  Roll  what  way  it  will, 
whether  it  be  knownothingism  or  prohibition,  or  Farmers'  Alliance 
or  Republicanism,  it  dashes  against  Gibraltar  and  gathers  sea  foam 
for  its  victory  when  it  reaches  the  Missouri  lines.  Say  whatever 
else  you  will  about  us,  let  Republicans  scheme  and  plan  until  their 


132  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

heads  are  gray,  let  the  battle  rage  until  filthy  Mammon  has  expended 
his  last  dollar,  and  red-plumed  Lucifer  has  shouted  himself  hoarse 
with  urging  on  his  fiery  steeds,  yet  never  will  the  Democratic  flag  go 
down  on  Missouri  soil. 

We  have  served  you  so  long  and  so  faithfully,  that  my  heart  is 
trembling  and  has  trembled  all  along  with  the  thought,  seeing  we 
have  served  you  so  faithfully,  that  possibly  in  this  grand  council 
chamber  you  do  not  wish  to  hear  me.  I  wish  you  knew  us  better. 
Come  and  see  us.  Come  all  of  you  at  once,  delegates,  audience, 
Tammany  braves  and  all.  Come  !  Come  !  I  invite  you  to  come  to 
us  as  the  disciples  went  forth  to  the  world,  without  purse  and  with- 
out scrip.  Come  !  Twenty  thousand  hospitable  Christian  homes 
will  receive  you,  and  bed  and  board  shall  be  as  free  as  the  song  of 
the  whip-poor-will  that  serenades  you  by  night,  or  the  mocking  bird 
that  wakes  you  up  when  Aurora  strews  the  skies  with  her  flowers. 
Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  bear  but  one  message  from  mag- 
nificent Missouri.  As  the  prairie  flower  turns  its  face  to  the  king 
of  day  as  he  mounts  up  into  the  sky  ;  as  it  looks  toward  him,  re- 
ceiving from  him  light  and  warmth  and  strength,  so,  I  say  to  you, 
does  the  Democracy  of  Missouri,  with  her  loving,  confiding,  child- 
like heart  turn  toward  and  follow  Grover  Cleveland.  Intending,  as 
I  believe  to-night,  to  say  my  last  word,  with  one  joyous  hope,  I  come 
in  the  name  of  Missouri  to  second  the  nomination  of  Grover 
Cleveland. 

Upon  Montana  being-  called,  Mr.  W.  A.  Clark,  of  that 
State,  said  : 

Iowa's  favorite  son  is  good  enough  for  Montana.  Under  him  the 
power  of  the  moneyed  and  corrupt  influences  of  the  land  will  have  no 
control,  and  as  a  great  representative  of  the  great  and  magnificent 
West,  into  which  the  center  of  population  is  rapidly  and  surely 
gravitating,  and  with  which  we  are  intimately  associated  and  identi- 
fied, we  are  willing  that  the  interests  of  our  State  and  that  of  the 
United  States  shall  be  placed  under  his  guidance.  Montana  is  one 
of  the  newest  States,  and  one  of  the  greatest  producers  of  metals, 
and  gladly  seconds  the  nomination  of  Horace  Boies. 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  State  of  Nebraska,  and 
the  chairman  of  that  delegation  announced  that  Ne- 
braska had  no  candidate. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  133 

The  Secretary  resumed  the  call  of  States  with  Nevada, 
New  Hampshire  and  New  Jersey,  each  of  which  an- 
nounced that  they  had  no  candidate  to  present  to  the 
Convention.  When  New  York  was  reached  that  dele- 
gation asked  to  be  passed,  which  was  done  by  consent 
of  the  Convention. 

North  Carolina,  North  Dakota,  Ohio  and  Oregon 
presented  no  candidates. 

When  Pennsylvania  was  reached,  Hon.  William  U. 
Hensel  was  recognized  by  the  Chair. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  have  the  honor  to  present  the  Hon.  W.  U.  Hen- 
sel, of  Pennsylvania. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.    WILLIAM    U.    HENSEL. 

Mr.  Chairman  : — Pennsylvania's  500,000  Democrats  have  sent 
their  representatives  here  to  make  no  demands.  They  come  hither 
to  indulge  in  no  idle  threats,  they  stand  here  to  extend  to  the  Demo- 
crats assembled  within  these  walls  no  empty  promises.  Second  in 
numbers  only  to  but  one  constituency  represented  on  this  floor,  they 
will  neither  yield  to  that  nor  to  any  other  in  their  loyalty  to  Demo- 
cratic principles  and  their  fidelity  to  Democratic  nominees.  Only 
twelve  years  ago,  by  the  invitation  of  our  good  brethren  from  our 
sister  State  of  New  York,  they  gave  their  favorite  son,  the  gallant 
and  glorious  Hancock,  to  the  Democracy  of  the  Union  as  their  candi- 
date for  President,  and  when  he  fell  on  the  field  of  battle,  no  shot 
from  Pennsylvania  struck  him  in  the  back. 

Seeking  only  here  the  selection  of  such  men  and  the  approval  of 
such  measures  as  will  promote  the  best  interests  of  their  party  and 
of  their  country,  they  anticipated  the  expression  of  the  popular  will, 
that  its  interests  would  be  best  served  by  athe  renomination  of 
Grover  Cleveland.  They  declared  that  he  had  given  to  his  party 
an  intellectual  and  political  leadership,  and  to  the  country  a  pure 
and  elevated  administration.  They  remember  that,  nominated 
eight  years  ago  in  misgivings  and  doubt,  he  had  vindicated  the  sa- 
gacity of  that  choice,  and  had  carried  the  standard  of  his  party  to 
its  first  substantial  victory  achieved  within  nearly  the  period  of  a 
generation.  Under  his  administration  the  dignity  of  American 
citizenship  was  maintained  at  home  and  enforced  abroad.  The 


134  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

departments  of  the  public  service  were  administered  with  efficiency 
and  economy,  and  under  wise  executive  direction  were  first  taken 
the  practical  steps  for  the  rehabilitation  of  an  American  navy,  to 
the  end  that  there  should  be  constructed  an  armament  that  would 
be  the  terror  of  the  nations  and  the  glory  of  the  seas. 

It  has  been  seen  that  with  a  courage  born  of  conviction  a  Demo- 
cratic President  dared  to  stake  his  own  immediate  political  fortunes, 
and  to  postpone  temporary  success  for  permanent  party  advantage 
upon  the  great  Democratic  maxim  of  "Unnecessary  taxation  is  un- 
just taxation."  The  slender  sapling  of  tariff  reform,  planted,  it 
seems,  but  yesterday  by  Morrison  and  Carlisle,  and  Watterson  and 
Mills,  under  the  careful  nurture  of  Grover  Cleveland,  has  become 
a  sturdy  oak,  wide-branching  to  the  storm,  deep-rooted  in  the  soil. 

Another  inspiring  influence  of  the  political  ideas  which  it  was  boast- 
fully said  had  gone  down  four  years  ago  in  the  campaign  of  educa- 
tion, we  have  witnessed  the  annihilation  of  a  Republican  Congress, 
the  restoration  of  the  popular  branch  of  the  Government  from  Rep- 
resentatives faithless  to  the  people's  cause,  until  the  few  survivals  of 
the  opposition  stand  as  melancholy  memorials,  like  blasted  pines 
in  the  track  of  the  forest  fires.  Moreover,  we  are  encouraged  in  this 
Convention  to  second  his  nomination  because  he  is  the  candidate 
of  no  State.  There  stands  Massachusetts ;  she  brings  to  this  Conven- 
tion the  standard  which  her  gallant  young  Governor  has  carried 
twice  to  victory,  and  he  bids  his  friends  to  group  it  here  with  those 
of  Oregon  and  California.  Illinois,  with  two  favorite  sons,  either 
of  them  fit  for  the  highest  honors  of  this  Convention,  records  her 
vote  with  those  of  all  New  England.  Not  only  from  shattered 
strongholds  of  Republican  power  in  the  Northwest,  but  from  the 
South,  where  Democratic  representatives  on  this  floor  have  the  best 
right  to  be  heard,  hear  we  the  same  voice  of  accord.  Not  more 
surely  is  he  the  desire  of  Michigan,  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota,  than 
he  is  of  the  great  Democratic  States  of  Missouri,  Tennessee  and 
Texas.  Nor  have  we  misgivings  for  New  York,  for  well  we  know 
that  in  the  last  roll-call  of  this  Convention,  and  in  the  roll-call  of 
the  Electoral  College  that  great  State,  though  long  the  pole-star  of 
political  leadership,  will  see  to  it  that  no  other  in  the  sisterhood 
records  more  votes  for  the  candidate  of  a  united  Democracy  than 
the  imperial  commonwealth  of  New  York. 

There  was  no  response  when  the  State  of  Rhode 
Island  was  called.  When  South  Carolina  was  called, 
Mr.  V.  K.  Tillman  arose  and  said  : 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  135 

Coming  from  the  South  Atlantic  coast  to  this  great  inland  city,  I 
would  be  glad,  if  you  were  not  so  tired,  to  say  a  few  words.  In  be- 
half of  the  Democrats  from  that  State  who  are  represented  here,  we 
desire  to  second  the  nomination  of  Horace  Boies,  of  Iowa. 

In  the  call  of  the  State  of  Tennessee,  Mr.  Ochs  was 
recognized  by  the  Chair. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  have  the  honor  to  present  Hon.  George  W.  Ochs, 
of  Tennessee. 

ADDRESS  OF  HON.  GEORGE  W.  OCHS. 

I  represent  in  age,  in  sentiment  and  in  nativity,  a  class  of  Demo- 
cratic voters  of  the  South,  who  were  born  after  the  tocsin  of  the 
war  had  sounded,  whose  political  creed  was  not  molded  in  sectional 
hate,  whose  political  views  were  not  warped  by  civil  strife ;  in 
short,  a  class  whose  Democracy  is  untinged  by  issues  of  the  war. 
I  yield  to  no  one  in  admiration  for  those  heroes  who  died  for  a 
cause  they  deemed  right.  Through  my  veins  flows  the  blood  of  one 
who  unsheathed  his  sword  for  the  Union,  while  his  helpmate,  she 
who  gave  me  birth,  gave  brother  and  gave  fortune  to  the  lost  cause. 
Missionary  Ridge,  Lookout  Mountain,  the  sodden  fields  of  Chicka- 
mauga,  encircle  the  city  of  my  home,  and  are  to  me  everlasting 
monuments  to  American  valor;  that  soil  which  now  nurtures  tempt- 
ing berry  and  luscious  grape,  where  daffodil  and  daisy  nod  to  pass- 
ing winds,  where  peace  and  plenty  declare  a  reunited  country,  is 
consecrated  by  the  blood  of  martyrs  whose  chivalry  and  whose 
heroism,  whose  dauntless  courage  and  unselfish  sacrifices  have  made 
the  name  of  American  soldiery  honored  and  respected  from  pole  to 
pole.  At  the  outskirts  of  my  city  are  two  sacred  spots,  where  sleep 
20,000  soldiers  of  the  blue  and  the  gray.  And  every  breeze  that 
sweeps  across  that  valley  sings  a  requiem  that  repeats  to  us  :  The 
war  is  an  epoch  that  is  ended.  The  issues  of  that  struggle  have 
been  superseded  by  the  enduring  questions  of  national  liberty,  pub- 
lic economy,  constitutional  purity,  the  broader  doctrines  enunciated 
by  Jefferson,  taught  by  Jackson,  and  practiced  and  exemplified  by 
Democratic  statesmen  of  the  present  day. 

One  grand  figure  has  for  ten  years  appeared  before  the  youth  of 
this  land,  pre-eminently  as  the  embodiment  of  that  lofty  statesman- 
ship, which  is  not  tinctured  by  issues  of  the  war,  and  is  free  from 
all  sectional  prejudices.  He  has  ignored  in  his  teachings,  his  papers 
and  his  public  acts,  these  dead  issues,  and  he  has  been  the  guide 


136  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

for  progressive  Democratic  thought,  the  oracle  for  patriotic  Ameri- 
cans, the  mentor  for  the  rising  generation.  In  him  the  young  men 
of  the  Union  have  discerned  a  character  distinguished  for  honesty 
and  integrity,  of  fearless  fidelity  to  public  promises,  and  resolute 
probity  in  the  discharge  of  public  duty  ;  a  living,  unflinching  expo- 
nent of  the  burning  truths  of  undefiled  democracy.  His  example 
has  elevated  political  life,  his  record  has  chastened  public  service, 
his  career  has  honored  American  citizenship.  For  his  ability  as  a 
leader,  his  integrity  as  a  statesman,  his  fidelity  as  an  administrator, 
his  courage  of  conviction,  his  fearless  devotion  to  duty,  his  honora- 
ble career  as  Mayor,  as  Governor  and  as  President,  on  behalf  of 
the  State  of  Tennessee,  and  in  the  name  of  the  young  men  of  the 
country,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland,  of  New 
York. 

For  Texas,  Mr.  McDonald  said  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  I  come  from  a  State  which  is  imperial  in  her  do- 
main, and  imperial  in  her  Democratic  majority  of  200,000,  and,  in 
behalf  of  the  Democracy  of  that  State,  I  second  the  nomination  of 
Grover  Cleveland. 

The  State  of  Vermont  had  no  candidate  to"  present. 
At  the  call  of  Virginia,  Senator  John  W.  Daniel,  on 
behalf  of  the  delegation  from  that  State,  said  : 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  JOHN    W.  DANIEL. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention : — Pursuing  the  instincts  of  that  Democracy  which  has  been 
the  devotion  of  my  life,  and  which  is  a  part  of  my  being,  responding 
to  the  request  of  about  one-half  of  the  delegated  Democrats  of  old 
Virginia,  I  rise  to  second  the  nomination  which  has  been  made  by 
the  solid  Democracy  of  the  Empire  State,  and  I  name  for  the  office 
of  President  of  the  United  States  that  great  Democrat,  whose  history 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  been  the  rise  and  progress  of  Democ- 
racy in  New  York ;  that  fearless,  that  undaunted,  that  upright, 
straightforward  and  unadulterated  Democrat,  David  Bennett  Hill. 
We  do  not  love  him  for  the  enemies  he  has  made,  but  we  love  him 
for  the  deeds  which  he  has  performed,  for  the  battles  which  he 
has  fought,  for  the  victories  for  the  country  which  he  has  won,  and 
we  love  him  for  the  enemies  of  Democracy  whom  he  has  conquered. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  137 

The  candidacy  of  David  Bennett  Hill  will  command  the  support 
of  every  element  of  the  Democratic  party  in  all  this  broad  Nation. 

Tell  me,  my  brother  Democrats,  if  the  business  men  of  this 
country  should  not  rally  around  the  standard  of  a  leader  who  re- 
duced the  debt  in  the  Empire  State,  and  who,  at  the  conclusion  of 
his  service,  left  the  lowest  tax  rate  upon  the  schedule  of  the  people's 
burdens  which  has  been  in  that  State  through  a  period  of  thirty-six 
years. 

When  I  look  across  this  vast  Convention  I  recognize  in  yon  solid 
body  of  delegates  of  New  York  the  heroic  faces  of  two  of  the  old 
corps  commanders  of  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  I  am  not  probably 
as  young  as  the  'young  Democrat  from  Tennessee  who  has  spoken 
to  you,  but  when  I,  who  had  the  honor  to  wear  a  gray  jacket  on  the 
field  of  Gettysburg,  look  over  the  united  Democracy  of  New  York 
and  see  the  valiant  leaders  of  the  army  of  the  Union,  I  say  in  my 
heart,  "  Democracy  means  fraternity,  and  under  the  banner  of  David 
B.  Hill  there  is  but  one  uniform,  one  army  and  an  undivided 
country." 

There  are  two  great  issues  at  the  present  time  which  divide  this 
people,  the  first  the  issue  of  monetary  reform.  In  the  platform 
which  has  gone  forth  from  this  Convention  to-day,  you  have  uncon- 
sciously embodied  the  doctrines  of  Hill's  Elmira  speech.  Then 
why  not  have  that  man  to  represent  you? 

The  second  of  these  great  issues  is  tariff  reform,  and  the  dis- 
tinguished Governor  of  New  Jersey  has  stated  before  this  Conven- 
tion what  tariff  reform  has  done  for  this  country.  I  could  but 
remember,  as  his  eloquent  words  fell  from  his  lips,  that  on  the  floor 
of  this  Convention  to-night  you  have  seen  the  solid  delegation  of 
New  York,  which  represents  David  B.  Hill,  vote  for  genuine  tariff 
reform,  while  New  Jersey  voted  upon  the  other  side  ;  but,  gentle- 
men of  the  Convention,  the  issue  of  issues,  the  great  overshadowing 
issue  of  all,  compared  to  which  every  other  issue  is  frivolous  and 
vain,  is  the  issue  of  the  force  bill ;  and  I  hope  that  every  Democratic 
orator  in  this  campaign  upon  which  we  are  entering,  on  the  prairies 
of  the  West,  in  the  cities  of  the  East,  among  the  cotton  fields  of  the 
South,  will  not  forget  in  the  first  clause  of  every  speech  he  makes 
to  remind  his  countrymen  that  if  this  force  bill  should  pass,  the 
Federal  Government  will  become  a  sword  whose  hilt  is  at  the  Capi- 
tal, and  whose  point  will  be  everywhere  amongst  the  States.  I 
would  remind  you  also,  gentlemen  of  this  Convention,  that  in  the 


138  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

greatest  of  all  the  parliamentary  fights  of  modern  times  A.  P.  Gor- 
man, of  Maryland,  and  the  other  Democratic  Senators  were  the 
only  power  that  stood  between  you  and  ruin,  and  it  was  David  B. 
Hill,  of  New  York,  who,  standing  in  the  place  of  Thomas  A.  Hen- 
dricks,  of  Indiana,  warned  his  countrymen  of  the  danger  in  store 
for  them,  and  roused  them  to  a  realizing  sense  of  their  peril. 

David  Bennett  Hill,  of  New  York,  was  born  a  child  of  the  people, 
and  throughout  his  life,  since  he  reached  the  age  of  21,  he  has  been 
a  man  of  the  people.  Never,  in  any  period  of  his  political  career, 
can  you  point  to  the  day  when  he  catered  to  plutocracy  or  com- 
pounded with  monopoly  of  any  kind.  For  twenty  years  he  has 
marched  at  the  head  of  the  bravest,  truest  and  hardest  working  of 
the  Democrats  of  New  York.  In  the  Legislature  of  New  York  he 
was  a  lieutenant  of  that  illustrious  Democratic  statesman,  Samuel 
J.  Tilden.  When  there  was  not  a  corporal's  guard  of  Democrats  in 
that  body,  as  the  companion  of  Tilden,  it  was  David  Bennett  Hill 
who  investigated — 

At  this  point  there  was  great  confusion,  occupants 
of  the  gallery  indulging  in  all  manner  of  cat- calls. 
During  the  tumult,  Bourke  Cockran,  of  New  York,  was 
recognized  by  the  Chairman,  upon  which  there  was  in- 
creased confusion  among  the  occupants  of  the  gallery. 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  rise  in  behalf  of  my  delegation 
to  distinctly  notify  this  Convention  that  if  the  candidate  of  the  del- 
egation from  New  York  cannot  have  respect  accorded  to  him  by 
the  spectators  in  these  galleries,  and  if  the  voice  of  the  gentleman 
who  is  seconding  his  nomination  is  not  permitted  to  be  heard  by 
this  Convention,  the  New  York  delegation  is  ready  to  leave  this 
room,  and  will  do  so  at  once. 

A  scene  of  great  confusion  ensued,  dozens  of  the  del- 
egates standing  on  the  chairs  striving  to  gain  the  floor. 

MR.  JOHN  SHARPE  WILLIAMS,  of  Mississippi  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I 
move  that  the  sergeant-at-arms,  at  the  head  of  the  Chicago  police, 
clear  the  galleries. 

This  motion  was  almost  drowned  in  the  noise  and 
confusion  in  the  galleries. 

MR.  DANIEL  :  Gentlemen,  I  will  not  detain  you  much  longer. 
(Great  confusion,  mingled  with  cries  from  different  parts  of  the  hall 
that  the  Chairman  clear  the  galleries  and  preserve  order.) 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  139 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  wishes  to  state  that  the  confusion  has 
not  originated  among  the  delegates,  but  that  the  occupants  of  the 
galleries  are  the  ones  who  are  interrupting  the  proceedings  of  this 
body. 

MR.  WILLIAMS  :  Therefore  I  move,  Mr.  Chairman,  the  galleries 
be  cleared. 

MR.  MURRAY  F.  SMITH,  of  Mississippi :  Mr.  Chairman,  the  delib- 
erations of  this  body  have  been  this  evening  continually  interrupted 
by  people  in  these  galleries,  who  have  hissed  and  yelled,  and  given 
utterance  to  all  sorts  of  contemptible  interjections.  These  inter- 
ruptions from  this  howling  mob  in  the  gallery  should  be  stopped, 
and  therefore  I  move  you  that  the  sergeant-at-arms,  with  sufficient 
force  of  police,  shall  clear  this  gallery  at  once. 

This  motion  was  seconded  from  different  parts  of  the 
Convention. 

MR.  WILLIAMS  :  My  motion,  Mr.  Chairman,  has  precedence. 
My  motion  was  that  the  sergeant-at-arms,  at  the  head  of  the  Chi- 
cago police,  should  clear  the  galleries. 

A  DELEGATE  :  I  move  that  the  sergeant-at-arms,  at  the  head  of 
the  Chicago  police  force,  clear  out  the  gallery. 

MR.  JOHN  H.  ROGERS,  of  Arkansas  :     I  rise  to  a  point  of  order. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  gentleman  will  state  his  point  of  order. 

MR.  ROGERS  :  I  desire  to  advise  this  Democratic  Convention 
that  this  is  a  deliberative  body,  and  not  the  Fifty- first  Congress  of 
the  United  States.  The  distinguished  Senator  from  Virginia  has  a 
right  to  be  heard  in  the  Democratic  Convention. 

MR.  OWEN  :  I  move  you  that  this  Convention  adjourn  until 
to-morrow  morning  at  11  o'clock. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  has  directed  the  sergeant-at-arms  to  use 
all  the  police  force  of  the  house  and  all  the  deputy  sergeants-at-arms 
to  suppress  disorder  whenever  it  occurs.  During  almost  all  the 
time  of  the  delivery  of  these  nominating  speeches  there  has  been 
perfect  quiet  and  perfect  attention  on  the  part  of  the  members  of 
the  Convention,  and  the  interruptions,  the  calls  and  the  confusion 
have  come  not  from  the  membership  of  this  body,  but  from  the 
occupants  of  the  galleries  and  other  positions  in  the  house.  The 
sergeant-at-arms  will  see  that  the  police  force  here  preserve  sufficient 
order  to  conduct  the  proceedings  of  this  Convention  in  quiet,  and 
to  allow  the  speakers  to  be  heard. 


140  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

THOMAS  J.  O'!)ONNELL,  of  Colorado  :  I  rise,  sir,  to  a  question  of 
the  highest  privilege.  There  are  more  men  within  these  railings, 
which  are  supposed  to  separate  the  delegates  from  the  mob,  who 
are  not  delegates  than  there  are  of  those  who  are  delegates.  It  will 
evidently  be  useless  for  this  Convention  to  attempt  to  do  any  busi- 
ness here  to-night.  The  Chair  says  it  will  rely  upon  the  sergeant- 
at-arms.  Everybody,  every  delegate  in  this  Convention,  has  seen 
men  by  the  hundreds  climbing  over  these  railings,  and  everybody 
but  delegates  seem  to  have  rights  upon  this  floor.  I  saw  to-night 
one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  this  Convention  refused  admission, 
while  I  have  seen  thousands  of  men  who  have  no  badges  or  tickets 
as  delegates  admitted  upon  this  floor.  Now,  sir,  I  move  that  this 
Convention  hear  Senator  Daniel  to-morrow  morning  at  11  o'clock. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  has  been  requested  to  state,  by  the 
sergeant-at-arms,  that  a  very  large  number  of  persons  have  secured 
admission  to  the  hall  to-night  by  what  he  calls  "split  tickets"  ;  in 
other  words,  delegates  have  allowed  their  tickets  to  be  used  to 
bring  persons  into  the  hall  who  had  no  tickets  to  come  in,  and  in 
that  way  the  hall  has  become  crowded,  and  this  confusion  has  oc- 
curred. 

BOURKE  COCKRAN,  of  New  York  :  I  ask  that  the  question  to 
adjourn  be  put. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  is  informed  by  gentlemen  who  are 
familiar  with  past  Conventions  and  rules,  that  during  the  call  of 
the  States  for  nominating  speeches,  no  motion  to  adjourn  is  in 
order. 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  I  desire  to  call  the  attention  of  the  Chair  to  the 
decision  in  1884,  when  an  adjournment  was  taken  at  6  o'clock  in 
the  evening  of  the  second  day,  during  the  nominating  speeches, 
which  were  concluded  the  following  morning.  I  call  the  attention  of 
the  Chair  to  that  case,  of  which  I  know  from  my  personal  memory. 
The  motion  was  entertained,  voted  upon  and  carried.  I  ask  the 
Chair  now  to  put  the  motion  to  this  Convention,  and  I  demand  a 
call  of  the  roll  of  States  upon  it. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  has  made  his  ruling  upon  information 
from  gentlemen  familiar  with  previous  conventions, 

MR.  COCKRAN  :     Then  I  appeal  from   the  decision  of  the  Chair. 

MR.  COLLINS,  of  Massachusetts  :  I  rise  to  a  point  of  order.  Has 
not  the  gentleman  from  Virginia  the  floor?  How  can  he  be  taken 
off  the  floor  by  the  gentleman  from  New  York  ? 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  141 

THE  CHAIR:  He  cannot.  The  gentleman  from  Virginia  has  the 
floor,  and  he  has  ceased  speaking  at  the  request  of  the  Chairman 
until  the  Convention  will  come  to  order  ;  and  the  Chair  will  state 
that  as  soon  as  the  Convention  comes  to  order  he  will  proceed  with 
his  remarks,  but  not  until  then. 

Senator  Daniel,  at  last  able  to  continue,  added  : 
I  am  well  aware,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  that  the  con- 
tinued noise  cannot  be  attributed  to  any  good  Democrat  of  this 
Convention,  whoever  he  may  be.  I  am  not  one  who  ever  con- 
ceives evil  in  his  heart,  or  utters  untruths  with  his  tongue  against 
his  brethren.  I  was  about  to  say  that  when  the  corrupt  judges 
of  New  York  were  arraigned  at  the  bar  of  public  judgment  and 
driven  to  retirement  during  the  Tweed  regime,  it  was  this  young 
Democrat,  David  B.  Hill,  who  appeared  at  the  bar  of  the  Senate 
as  their  prosecutor,  and  from  that  day  until  this  there  has  been 
no  peril  to  Democratic  principles  in  this  land  in  which  he  did 
not  appear  at  roll  call  on  the  line  of  battle.  About  this  time  the 
history  of  politics  of  New  York  turned  over  a  new  page  ;  there  was 
about  to  be  nominated  a  Governor  and  a  Lieutenant-Governor  from 
two  cities  of  that  .great  State,  whose  mayors  had  signalized  their 
careers  by  their  economy,  virtue  and  the  business  methods  of  their 
administrations.  And  when  the  people  found  in  Grover  Cleveland 
the  proper  and  fit  candidate  for  Governor,  they  found  also  in  David 
Bennett  Hill,  the  Mayor  of  Elmira,  the  fit  man  to  be  his  compan- 
ion ;  and  when  there  came  that  tidal  wave  of  well  nigh  200,000 
majority  in  the  Empire  State  Grover  Cleveland  was  their  chief 
executive  and  David  B.  Hill  was  his  lieutenant.  And  when  your 
leader,  my  countrymen,  by  your  voice  and  the  voice  of  all  the 
Democrats  of  this  land,  the  Governor  of  New  York  was  called  to  a 
still  higher  station,  David  B.  Hill  became  his  successor.  So  wisely 
did  he  discharge  and  so  purely  did  he  administer  the  executive 
office  of  that  great  State  that  when  the  election  came  around,  he 
was  nominated  to  succeed  himself,  and  in  1888  he  was  elected.  I 
had  the  honor  to  be  in  New  York  State  on  the  eve  of  the  election, 
when  he  was  candidate  for  Governor  and  Cleveland  was  the  candi- 
date for  President,  and  I  stood  as  near  to  him  as  I  stand  now  to  the 
speaker's  chair,  when,  with  a  clear,  ringing  voice  and  a  manly  bear- 
ing; when,  with  the  intrepidity  of  a  brave,  true  man,  he  said  to  the 
assembled  multitude  :  "  If  either  of  us  shall  fall  in  this  campaign,  I 
pray  to  God  it  may  be  I,  and  not  Grover  Cleveland." 


142  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

He  was  elected  then,  my  countrymen,  but  where  yet  was  the 
Empire  State  ?  For  twenty  years  our  majorities  had  been  swallowed 
up  by  a  Republican  gerrymander.  While  the  great  commercial 
metropolis  of  this  Nation  held  political  power  the  Legislature  of 
New  York  was  so  manipulated  by  the  Republican  machine  that  Re- 
publican Senators  continued  to  appear  in  Washington,  with  a  hostile 
Legislature  against  him,  environed  on  all  sides  by  Federal  and  by 
adverse  State  influence,  the  dauntless  Governor  of  New  York  ad- 
dressed himself  to  the  task  of  redeeming  his  State  and  making  it 
whole  in  the  Democratic  family  ;  and  so  well  did  he  foil  the  efforts 
of  the  conspirators  against  him,  that  a  little  later  he  had  got  the 
Assembly  elected,  had  re-apportioned  congressional  districts  of  that 
State,  had  re-apportioned  the  legislative  districts  of  that  State  also, 
and  that  Legislature,  when  it  assembled,  did  him  the  honor,  with  its 
unanimous  Democratic  voice,  to  elect  him  Senator  of  the  United 
States.  And  to-day,  my  countrymen,  when  you  calculate  upon 
carrying  this  election  for  any  Democrat,  do  not  forget,  when  you 
cast  your  vote  in  this  election,  that  you  have  confidence  that  New 
York  will  be  Democratic,  because  you  have,  down  in  the  secret 
recesses  of  your  heart,  slander  and  contumely  to  the  contrary  not- 
withstanding, confidence  in  the  deeds  which  David  Bennett  Hill  has 
done,  and  overwhelming  confidence  in  the  fidelity  of  the  deeds  that 
he  will  do. 

Armed  from  head  to  heel,  the  Democracy  of  New  York  enters 
this  contest ;  and  by  the  vote  of  her  worthy  citizens,  by  the  vote  of 
the  solid  Democracy  of  New  York,  which  has  stood  there  for 
twenty  years  unbroken,  we  shall  see  the  light  of  victory  blaze  upon 
us  in  all  the  Northern  sky ;  and  in  the  name  of  those  brave  and 
true  and  undaunted  veterans,  I  join  them  in  asking  you  to  give  to 
those  who  must  bear  the  heat  and  burden  of  the  fray  the  choice  and 
selection  of  the  candidate  who  is  to  lead  them,  and  to  ratify  their 
request  of  you  that  his  name  shall  be  David  Bennett  Hill. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  have  to  introduce  Hon.  John  Goode,  of  Vir- 
ginia. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  JOHN    GOODE. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — Differing,  as  I  do  most  sincerely, 
from  my  eloquent  and  honorable  colleague  from  Virginia,  I  claim 
your  indulgence  for  two  minutes  only.  More  than  100  years  ago 
Patrick  Henry,  that  forest-born  Demosthenes,  whose  heaven-born 
eloquence  first  kindled  the  fires  of  the  American  Revolution,  said  : 
"  There  is  no  better  teacher  than  experience  ;  there  is  no  safer 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  143 

criterion  by  which  to  judge  the  future  than  by  the  past."  And 
judging  the  future  by  the  past,  we  all  know  that  Grover  Cleveland 
will  give  us  a  safe,  pure,  honest  and  successful  administration,  be- 
cause he  believes  in  a  strict  construction  of  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion. He  believes  that  a  public  office  is  a  public  trust.  He  believes 
that  the  tariff  is  a  tax,  and  that  all  unnecessary  taxation  is  unjust 
taxation.  He  believes  in  a  sound,  stable  currency,  of  a  volume  suffi- 
cient to  supply  the  wants  of  the  people,  consisting  of  gold,  silver 
and  paper  money  at  par  with  each  other.  He  believes  that  the 
public  lands  acquired  by  the  common  blood  and  common  treasure 
should  be  held  by  the  Government  in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  all  the 
people.  The  people  have  faith  in  him.  They  admire  him  for  his 
massive  intellect;  they  admire  him  for  the  purity  of  his  purposes; 
they  admire  him  for  the  honesty  of  his  methods  ;  they  admire  him 
because  he  has  the  courage  of  his  convictions,  and  can  stand 
four-square  to  any  wind  that  blows.  And  now,  in  conclusion,  my 
friends,  for  I  do  not  intend  to  detain  you,  let  me  say,  you  are  about 
to  enter  upon  a  political  battle  that  will  be  hotly  contested  all  along 
the  line.  There  is  no  child's  play  before  you  ;  you  cannot  rest 
upon  laurels  already  won.  As  Napoleon  Bonaparte  said  to  his 
army  in  Italy,  "  There  are  other  marches  to  be  made  ;  there  are 
other  battles  to  be  fought ;  there  are  other  victories  to  be  won." 
Let  us,  one  and  all,  come  together  this  night  and  resolve  that  all 
divisions  and  dissensions  shall  be  forever  in  the  deep  bosom  of  the 
ocean  buried.  Let  us  prepare  to  move  forward  with  uplifted  brow, 
and  with  unfaltering  faith  in  the  right.  With  all  my  heart,  and 
representing,  as  I  believe,  a  majority  of  the  Democracy  of 
Virginia,  I  second  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland.  And 
I  believe,  my  countrymen,  that  with  him  as  our  candidate  our 
banners  will  dance  in  the  glad  sunlight  of  a  glorious  and  magnificent 
victory. 

H.  J.  SNIVELY,  of  Washington :  Mr.  Chairman,  the  State  of 
Washington,  through  its  Democracy,  sends  its  first  greeting  to  the 
Democracy  of  the  Nation  in  Convention  assembled,  and  we  promise 
to  send  you  next  November  the  first  electoral  vote  of  that  State. 
And,  Mr.  Chairman,  in  behalf  of  the  Democracy  of  the  State  of 
Washington,  I  desire  to  second  the  nomination  of  that  grand  states- 
man who,  as  President  of  the  United  States,  seems  to  have  been  the 
only  President  during  the  last  fifty  years  who  remembered  that  a 
public  office  was  a  public  trust. 


144  .  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Gen.  J.  W.  St.  Clair  responded  for  the  State  of  West 
Virginia,  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman  :  Applying  the  rule  of  my  venerable  friend  from 
Virginia,  that  we  are  to  judge  of  the  future  by  the  past,  for  fear  that 
we  might  have  the  same  thing  that  we  had  in  1888  with  Grover 
Cleveland  as  our  candidate,  I  second  the  nomination  of  a  winner 
and  a  Democrat,  David  B.  Hill. 

B.  F.  MARTIN,  of  West  Virginia  :  The  great  sentiment  of  the 
Democracy  of  West  Virginia,  I  am  satisfied,  is  in  favor  of  Grover 
Cleveland,  of  New  York,  and  I  think  I  represent  a  majority  of  the 
delegates  when  I  rise  in  my  place  to  second  his  nomination.  I  am 
sure  I  represent  the  sentiments  of  the  Second  District  of  the  State, 
as  well  as  the  First  District. 

JOHN  J.  DAVID,  of  West  Virginia  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  desire  to  say 
that  nine-tenths  of  the  Democracy  of  West  Virginia  favor  the  nomi- 
nation of  Grover  Cleveland. 

GENERAL  ST.  CLAIR:  I  know  the  sentiment  of  the  people  of 
West  Virginia,  and  I  have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that  the  gentle- 
man is  mistaken. 

Hon.  S.  W.  Lamoreaux,  of  Wisconsin,  responded  for 
that  State,  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  Wisconsin  has  no  name  to  present  to  this  Conven- 
tion as  a  candidate  for  President,  but  we  desire  to  second  the  nomina- 
tion of  Grover  Cleveland.  If  he  is  nominated  by  this  Convention, 
Wisconsin  will  give  him  its  electoral  votes  next  November. 

BOURKE  COCKRAN,  of  New  York  :  Mr.  Chairman,  does  that  com- 
plete the  call  of  the  roll  ? 

THE  CHAIR  :     It  does. 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  I  understand  that  the  State  of  New  York  has 
been  passed,  and  my  colleagues  desire  that  I  should  now  say  a  few 
words.  I  have  a  request  to  make  to  the  Convention,  and  I  am 
about  to  ask  its  indulgence.  It  is  now  five  minutes  of  two.  I  am 
worn  out,  physically,  and  I  think  the  Convention  is  worn  out.  It 
will  be  a  matter  of  great  physical  hardship  for  me  to  address  the 
Convention  now.  What  I  have  to  say  I  think  the  extraordinary 
political  condition  of  this  campaign  makes  necessary.  I  say  it  in 
all  good  faith,  and  in  all  kindness,  and  I  ask  the  indulgence  of  this 
Convention,  that  we  may  take  a  recess  until  10:30  o'clock  to- 
morrow. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  145 

The  suggestion  of  Mr.  Cockran  being  manifestly  not 
in  harmony  with  the  temper  of  the  Convention,  and  not 
being  in  the  form  of  a  motion,  he  reluctantly  yielded, 
and  came  forward  to  the  platform. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  present  to  you  the 
Hon.  Bourke  Cockran,  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  BOURKE    COCKRAN. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — Our  State  be- 
ing threatened  with  an  invasion,  and  the  invading  force  being  of  our 
political  household,  my  associates  in  the  delegation  have  asked  me 
to  present  to  this  Convention  before  it  proceeds  to  take  final  action 
upon  the  great  question  now  before  it,  a  plain,  quiet,  friendly  state- 
ment of  the  political  conditions  in  that  State.  I  make  this  state- 
ment to  you,  gentlemen,  I  will  say  in  advance,  in  no  spirit  of 
unkindness  to  anybody,  with  no  desire  to  find  fault  with  whatever 
may  be  the  action  of  this  Convention,  determined  to  promise  you 
in  advance  that  whatever  your  wisdom  may  decide,  the  Democracy 
of  New  York  could  not  be  disloyal  if  it  tried  to  be. 

We  have  had  the  action  of  our  State  foretold  for  us,  our  loyalty 
pledged  for  us  by  gentlemen  who  are  about  to  reject  our  advice, 
and  by  some  gentlemen  who  have  not  hesitated  to  taunt  us.  Gen- 
tlemen, we  will  be  loyal,  but  our  experiences  in  this  body  are  apt  to 
convince  us  that  there  may  be  such  a  thing  as  too  much  loyalty  for 
one's  personal  comfort.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  spirit  in  which  this 
Convention  has  approached  this  subject;  is  the  profession  of  the 
belief  that  New  York  Democrats  will  be  loyal  anyhow,  and  because 
they  will  be  loyal  they  must  be  outraged  by  the  party  which  depends 
on  their  loyalty.  We  have  come  here  to  this  Convention,  and, 
notwithstanding  that  fate  to  which  we  are  about  to  be  led,  we  state 
to  you  that,  if  it  be  decided  to  cast  aside  the  precedents  of  a  cen- 
tury, to  violate  every  notion  of  State  rights,  as  these  notions  have 
been  entertained,  cherished  and  protected  as  articles  of  Demo- 
cratic faith;  if  it  be  determined  to  thrust  down  our  throats  a 
nomination  against  which  we  protest ;  if  it  be  determined  by  this 
Convention  that  contumely  shall  be  heaped  upon  the  heads  of  loyal 
soldiers,  those  soldiers  must  still  be  loyal,  no  matter  what  outrage 
may  be  perpetrated  against  them  by  the  party  or  the  cause  which 
they  serve. 
10 


146  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

But,  gentlemen,  while  the  members  of  this  delegation  in  this 
Convention,  while  the  members  of  the  great  organization  which  we 
represent,  will  be  loyal  to  the  action  of  this  body,  no  matter  what 
its  action  may  be.  there  is  in  the  State  of  New  York  a  vote  which 
cannot  be  controlled  by  political  machinery,  and  that  is  not  always 
the  Mugwump  vote.  The  distinguished  gentleman  from  New  Jersey 
who  proposed  the  name  of  Mr.  Cleveland,  and  some  of  the  gentle- 
men who  seconded  the  nomination,  seem  to  have  reached  the 
conclusion  that  the  business  of  the  Democratic  party  is  to  officer 
its  Conventions,  shape  its  policies,  and  name  its  candidates  in  order 
to  please  an  element  that  despises  our  party  and  derides  its  history 
and  professes  superiority  to  it.  Mr.  Chairman,  it  is  said  there  is  an 
independent  element  that  will  accept  a  certain  candidacy  and  no 
other ;  that  there  is  an  element  that  will  accept  a  certain  candidacy 
because  it  is  better  than  the  Democratic  party  ;  that  the  candidate 
is  superior  to  the  party  from  which  he  springs,  and  so  it  will 
support  the  man  while  it  will  continue  to  deride  and  denounce  the 
party.  If  there  be  in  all  this  world  anything  better  than  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  I  want  to  see  it  and  to  get  into  it.  I  have  never 
known  the  Republican  that  I  am  not  willing  to  welcome  into  the 
party  if  he  professes  a  desire  to  be  a  Democrat.  God  forbid  that 
this  party  of  ours,  whose  growth  is  the  hope  of  the  nation,  shall 
close  its  doors  against  any  man  who  is  ready  to  profess  its  faith  and 
enlist  in  its  armies.  But  what  we  do  protest  against  in  New  York 
is  that  our  party  shall  be  surrendered  to  the  control  of  those  who 
despise  and  dislike  it,  that  one  man  may  be  exalted  and  the  Demo- 
cratic hosts  may  be  degraded. 

Mr.  Chairman,  let  me  say  to  this  Convention  in  a  spirit  of  entire 
candor  and  in  the  same  spirit  of  friendly  discussion  in  which  I  hope 
to  continue  and  conclude,  that  it  is  not  surprising  to  me  that  Mr. 
Cleveland  should  be  popular  in  other  States.  It  is  not  surprising  to 
me,  above  all,  that  he  should  be  popular  in  Republican  States.  You 
gentlemen  who  live  outside  the  State  of  New  York  remember  him 
only  as  the  last  Democratic  President  and  the  only  Democratic 
President  who  ever  administered  the  affairs  of  this  nation  within  the 
memory  of  most  of  you.  All  your  associations  with  him  were 
pleasant  ones  ;  all  your  memories  of  him  are  probably  grateful  ones. 
He  was  the  only  man  whose  career  brought  you  in  touch  with  the 
great  Federal  Government  which  you  support  by  your  taxes  and 
which  you  would  defend  with  your  lives  if  it  were  in  danger  For 
four  years  you  have  seen  nothing  of  him.  For  four  years  he  has 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  147 

passed  off  the  stage,  and,  except  an  occasional  letter  written  to  some 
friend  upon  some  public  question,  you  have  had  no  evidences  even 
of  his  existence,  except  those  memories  of  which  I  have  spoken. 
But  with  us,  gentlemen,  in  the  State  of  New  York,  let  me  say  to  you 
in  kindness,  let  me  say  it  to  you  in  no  spirit  of  disparagement  to  Mr. 
Cleveland  or  to  his  history,  to  his  record  as  an  administrative 
officer,  to  his  patriotism  as  a  man,  to  his  virtue  as  a  citizen — let  me 
say,  I  repeat,  that  in  the  State  of  New  York  for  four  years  the  forces 
that  have  invoked  his  name,  the  men  who  have  been  known  as  the 
Cleveland  Democracy,  are.  the  men  over  whose  prostrate  bodies  the 
Democratic  party  has  been  compelled  to  march  to  victory. 

We  were  told  in  the  campaign  of  1888  that  the  Democratic  nomi- 
nation for  Governor  was  not  up  to  the  Cleveland  standard,  and  men 
who  are  here  from  New  York  State  supporting  Mr.  Cleveland's 
candidacy  then  headed  a  bolt  against  the  Democratic  candidate 
and  called  upon  all  men  who  made  the  Cleveland  ideal  of  Democ- 
racy their  standard  to  destroy  and  overthrow  the  Democratic 
candidate  for  Governor.  Well,  the  people  were  not  up  to  the 
Cleveland  standard,  but  they  were  up  to  the  Democratic  standard 
"by  '20,000  majority.  Ever  since  he  vacated  his  office,  the  ex-Cabinet 
ministers  who  lived  in  the  State  of  New  York,  with  one  exception — 
and  he  was  too  busy  to  attend  to  politics — every  Federal  office- 
holder who  drew  a  salary  from  the  Federal  treasury  during  his 
administration,  was  arrayed  against  us  in  the  same  Mugwump  oppo- 
sition, which  had  for  its  aim  and  its  purpose  the  turning  over  of  the 
State  of  New  York  to  the  Republican  party,  unless  the  Democracy 
would  pay  blackmail  to  the  Mugwumps. 

We  have  met  their  challenges,  and  we  have  overthrown  them. 
We  have  marched,  by  steadily  increasing  majorities,  from  victory  to 
victory,  until,  as  you  were  told  by  Colonel  Fellows  to-night,  the 
State  of  New  York  is  as  Democratic  as  Texas.  But  throughout  all 
these  four  years  these  men  who  have  assumed  to  speak  of  Cleveland 
Democracy  as  their  own  special  property  have  been  the  foes  of 
every  Democratic  measure  which  the  Democratic  party  supported, 
and  which  the  Democratic  party  wrung  from  Republican  hostility. 

When  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  New  York  was  won  last  year, 
and  the  vicious  apportionment  of  thirty  years  was  about  to  be  wiped 
out,  during  the  contest  and  struggle  for  the  possession  of  the  Senate, 
these  same  Mugwumps  abused  us  in  the  press,  denounced  us  as 
public  enemies,  and,  when  we  finally  succeeded,  they  declared  that 


148  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Governor  Hill  had  stolen  the  Legislature.  Gentlemen  of  the  Con- 
vention, we  do  not  think  it  became  the  Republican  party  to  talk  of 
thefts  of  Legislatures  or  of  Presidencies.  We  thank  Governor  Hill 
for  getting  that  Legislature,  and  we  trust,  under  God,  we  may  never 
be  deprived  of  a  leader  who  is  ready  to  take  from  the  reluctant 
hand  of  the  Republican  enemy  the  plunder  which  he  has  withheld 
from  the  righful  majority  for  a  quarter  of  a  century. 

In  1889  our  State  ticket  was  opposed  because  it  was  declared  that 
that,  too,  was  inferior  to  the  standard  of  Democracy  set  up  by  the 
Cleveland  adherents.  The  result  was  the  same  triumphant  vindica- 
tion of  Democracy  that  has  always  been  obtained  when  it  is  Opposed 
by  the  Mugwumps.  In  1890  ihe  City  of  New  York,  when  we  had 
passed  a  new  electoral  law,  under  which  the  largest  powers  were 
vested  in  the  County  Clerk  and  Sheriff,  these  same  men  made  a 
combination  with  the  Republicans,  by  which  they  took  the  nomina- 
tion for  Mayor  and  gave  the  nomination  for  County  Clerk  and 
Sheriff  to  the  Republicans,  and  tried  to  elect  the  ticket  by  a  cam- 
paign of  slander,  outrage  and  contumely  leveled  against  the  regular 
Democratic  organization.  They  denounced  the  Democratic  party 
of  the  city  of  New  York  as  the  organized  crime  of  the  county. 
They  declared  that  the  men  who  made  Democratic  majorities  were 
what  they  call  semi-criminals,  and  beyond  the  pale  of  civilized  life. 
We  met  them  in  the  localities  where  we  were  known  ;  we  appealed 
to  the  judgment  of  our  neighbors  and  of  the  voters  who  knew  us, 
and  we  were  vindicated  by  majorities  ranging  from  30,000  to  60,000. 
cast  for  our  party  and  for  the  safety  of  the  Republic. 

When,  in  that  same  campaign,  the  dark  cloud  of  the  Force  Bill 
hung  over  the  Capitol  at  Washington — when  it  had  passed  the 
House  and  had  already  crossed  the  threshold  of  the  Senate  ;  when 
we  saw  the  Republican  autocrats  who  had  obtained  possession  of 
the  Congress,  riding  rough-shod  over  Democratic  majorities  in 
Democratic  districts,  crowding  on  to  the  point  where  free  institu- 
tions would  be  overthrown,  and  representative  government  be 
merely  a  mockery — in  the  City  and  County  of  New  York  we  raised 
our  voice  in  protest  in  the  name  of  a  commercial  community,  and 
from  the  instinct  of  self-preservation,  in  that  great  town,  sprang  the 
tidal  wave  which  overwhelmed  with  disaster  the  Republican  mis- 
creants that  had  plundered  the  Treasury  and  threatened  the  Consti- 
tution. The  man  who  has  been  presented  to  you  here  to-night  on 
behalf  of  the  solid  New  York  delegation  appealed  to  the  merchants 
of  New  York  to  stay  the  hand  of  Republican  legislation.  He  pointed 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  149 

out  to  them  that  every  man  that  owned  aline  of  credit  in  a  Southern 
State,  every  man  who  wanted  to  open  a  business  connection  in  a 
Southern  town,  had  a  vital  interest  in  the  preservation  of  white 
civilization  throughout  the  South.  The  response  was  prompt  and 
overwhelming. 

Now,  gentlemen,  when  you  are  asked  to  make  this  nomination 
against  our  protest,  it  means  the  endorsement  of  the  war  that  has 
been  made  against  us  and  against  the  Democratic  party ;  it  means 
that  we  should  debase  ourselves  before  the  men  whom  we  have 
trampled  in  the  dust  in  the  name  of  a  triumphant,  aggressive  and 
militant  Democracy ;  it  means  that  the  men  who  have  carried  the 
banner  to  victory  by  majorities  reaching  48,000  are  to  be  dishon- 
ored in  a  Democratic  Convention,  and  they  are  to  have  the  brand 
of  disapproval  placed  upon  their  actions  because,  forsooth,  their 
methods  have  been  objectionable  to  Republicans. 

I  have  said  that  I  can  understand,  above  all,  the  popularity  of 
Mr.  Cleveland  in  Republican  States.  The  gentleman  from  Pennsyl- 
vania declared  that  Pennsylvania  never  made  a  threat  in  a  Demo- 
cratic Convention,  and  I  was  reminded  that  if  she  did  it  would  be 
about  as  absurd  as  a  baby  threatening  a  giant  with  the  instrument 
by  which  the  teething  process  is  facilitated.  What  could  she 
threaten  the  Democracy  with  ?  May  I  not  call  your  attention  here, 
gentlemen,  to  the  peculiar  character  of  the  organization  of  our  Con- 
vention, and  the  extraordinary  power  for  evil  that  is  sometimes 
exercised  by  these  Republican  strongholds  ?  I  say  it  without  the 
slightest  reflection  upon  the  gentlemen  who  sit  in  this  Convention. 
The  criticism  is  addressed  solely  to  the  system.  Here  we  have 
Pennsylvania,  rabid  in  its  Republicanism,  exercising  the  enormous 
influence  of  sixty-four  votes  on  the  floor  of  this  Convention — more 
than  twice  as  many  as  the  imperial  State  of  Texas  can  cast  in  obedi- 
ence to  the  judgment  of  its  delegates — and  then,  after  its  represent- 
atives have  started  us  upon  a  doubtful  career,  on  the  second  Tues- 
day in  November  next  they  will,  with  thirty-two  electoral  votes, 
thrust  us  into  the  ditch  which  they  have  dug  for  us  in  this  Conven- 
tion. And  so  in  all  the  States  Republican  by  overwhelming 
majorities,  who  send  down  delegates  here  instructed  to  invade  the 
Democratic  stronghold  of  New  York,  and  beat  down  our  barriers 
because  they  know  our  hand  will  never  be  raised  against  Democrats. 
When,  with  that  presumption  upon  our  loyalty  which  is  supposed  to 
give  them  impunity,  they  ask  the  Democratic  party  to  outrage  its 
defenders  and  its  soldiers  that  they,  as  beneficiaries  of  its  success 


150  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

may  dictate  its  policy,  isn't  it  well  to  remember  for  a  moment  the 
cause  that  produced  this  singular  popularity  of  their  candidate  in 
States  certain  to  refuse  him  their  electoral  votes?  It  is  plain,  and 
easy  to  be  ascertained.  Mr.  Cleveland  is  popular  in  Republican 
States,  because  his  Democracy  is  not  offensive  to  Republicans.  If 
I  might  go  behind  the  glowing  periods  of  the  gentleman  from  Penn- 
sylvania, whose  poetic  fervor  undoubtedly  betrayed  him  into  some 
extravagance  of  expression,  if  he  will  permit  me  even  that  degree  of 
criticism,  we  will  find  an  explanation  for  this  extraordinary  activity 
of  delegates  from  Republican  States  in  the  belief  that  this  particular 
nomination  may  increase  chances  in  Senatorial  districts  of  the 
State,  chances  of  candidates  for  County  Clerk,  chances,  perhaps, 
for  candidates  for  Congress  in  the  few  Democratic  localities  to  be 
found  in  these  Republican  strongholds  ;  and  right  here,  gentlemen, 
is  the  kernel  of  our  objection  to  Mr.  Cleveland's  availability.  I  be- 
lieve that  Mr.  Cleveland  is  a  very  popular  man,  a  most  popular 
man.  I  have  said  that  I  believe  that  he  is  a  most  popular  man — let' 
me  say  a  man  of  extraordinary  popularity — every  day  in  the  year, 
except  one,  and  that  is  election  day.  It  is  a  popularity  which  I 
might  describe  as  tumultuous,  but  not  reducible  to  votes.  It  is  a 
popularity  based  upon  the  fact  that  his  opponents  speak  well  of  him, 
but  will  not  vote  for  him.  So  it  is  delusive.  So  it  is  calculated  to 
arouse  enthusiasm  four  months  before  election,  and  to  produce  dis- 
appointment for  four  years  after  election. 

My  fellow  citizens,  don't  we  remember  four  years  ago  in  St. 
Louis  ?  I  will  venture  to  say  there  are  now  right  in  this  body  a  few 
gentlemen  whose  memories  are  tinged  with  sadness  as  they  reflect 
upon  the  enthusiasm  and  confidence  with  which  we  laid  wagers  of 
three  and  four  to  one  that  Cleveland  would  be  elected  after  the 
nomination  of  1888.  In  the  State  of  New  York  the  Democratic 
party  was  seriously  impoverished,  and  the  Republican  adherents 
raised  to  a  degree  of  wealth  which  they  never  enjoyed  before,  even 
from  the  operations  of  the  robber  tariff.  We  were  misled  by  that 
fictitious  popularity  which  comes  from  the  forbearance  of  the  enemy. 
We  in  New  York  do  not  want  to  be  misled  in  that  way  again.  The 
man  whom  we  consider  stronger  than  any  other,  the  man  in  whose 
leadership  we  have  faith,  is  he  who  bears  upon  his  bosom  the  marks 
of  the  weapons  of  the  Republican  foe.  The  man  who  bleeds  for  the 
cause  in  front  of  the  army  is  the  man  that  knows  no  laggards  in  his 
rear. 

We  have  a  homogeneous  party  now.  For  God's  sake  leave  it  to 
us.  If  we  be  not  accorded  the  nomination  that  we  ask  for  from  the 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  151 

State  of  New  York,  give  us  any  citizen  in  this  United  States  who  is 
a  Democrat.  Give  us  some  man  who  will  not  raise  up  against  us 
any  active  hostile  force  within  our  own  ranks. 

I  believe  it  was  the  distinguished  military  hero  from  Massachu- 
setts, Gen.  Collins,  who  declared  there  was  no  Democrat  in  this 
Union  who  would  vote  against  that  ticket ;  but  there  sit  behind  him 
two  soldiers  whose  deeds  have  not  escaped  the  attention  of  history, 
two  heroes  who  have  led  the  Union  armies  to  victory,  but  who 
have  never  made  faces  at  the  vanquished  foe,  and  they  will  tell  you 
here,  comrades  who  fought  with  them,  heroes  who  sustained  them 
and  heroes  who  lowered  their  swords  to  them  on  the  field  of  battle — 
they  will  tell  you  that  the  soldier  vote  of  New  York — of  whom  there 
are  at  least  25,000  Democratic — will  not  support  the  nomination  of 
Mr.  Cleveland,  and  did  not  support  him  in  1888.  Gentlemen,  I 
submit  to  you,  is  it  wise  to  antagonize  that  vote,  to  antagonize  it 
without  reason,  to  antagonize  it  blindly,  defiantly,  recklessly  ? 

What  is  the  excuse  given  for  the  course  you  are  invited  to  take  ? 
As  I  understand  it,  there  are  two  excuses  ;  one,  that  we  can  get  this 
Mugwump  vote.  Now  I  warn  this  Convention,  from  the  experience 
of  every  Democrat  who  has  carried  the  State  of  New  York — and 
none  has  failed  to  do  it  in  nine  years  except  Mr.  Cleveland — that 
you  cannot  get  one  Mugwump  vote  without  driving  away  a  hundred 
Democratic  votes.  The  Democratic  party  cannot  fuse  with  the 
party  that  despises  it,  which  derides  its  principles.  The  Republican 
party  differs  with  us  on  principles.  They  differ  with  us  on  theories. 
We  march  against  them  in  serried  hosts.  We  take  from  them  every- 
thing they  have  in  the  way  of  political  property.  We  leave  not 
sticking  in  their  hands  one  single  office  which  we  can  take  from 
them.  In  this  we  may  violate  the  abstract  ethics  of  civil  service 
reform,  but  we  strengthen  the  Democratic  party.  We  have  to-day 
in  the  State  of  New  York  a  Capitol  in  which  every  executive  officer 
is  a  Democrat,  in  which  both  Houses  of  the  Legislature  are  Demo- 
cratic ;  in  which  there  is  not  a  single  person,  I  believe,  employed 
who  is  not  a  Democrat.  We  have  produced  in  that  Capitol  such  a 
political  atmosphere  that  no  Republican  can  breathe  it  and  live. 
And  every  hour  our  Democratic  forces  grow  stronger. 

But  while  these  Republicans  go  down  before  us,  we  respect  them 
and  they  respect  us.  We  ask  no  quarter  and  we  give  none  when 
the  Lord  delivers  the  Philistines  into  our  hands.  But  with  the 
Mugwump  there  can  be  no  treaty  of  peace  nor  implied  faith.  He 
has  no  weapon  but  slander  and  abuse.  He  does  not  want  to  enter 


152  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

the  Democratic  party ;  he  wants  to  own  it.  He  wants  you  to  lend 
him  this  party  organization  to  accomplish  his  own  purposes,  and 
not  for  the  good  of  the  Democratic  party. 

Now,  gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  we  have  got  the  political  con- 
ditions of  New  York,  as  I  have  said,  in  such  a  state,  in  the  teeth  of 
Mugwump  opposition,  that  we  are  invincible  if  we  can  hold  the 
Democratic  vote.  Let  me  give  you  one  final  illustration  of  the 
T  icthod  under  which  we  have  marched  to  these  Democratic  suc- 
cesses. In  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  we  have  a  majority  of 
some  50,000  or  60,000.  The  county  of  Kings,  containing  the  city 
of  Brooklyn,  gives  a  majority  of  12,000  to  20,000 — 12,000  for  a 
Mugwump  candidate  and  20,000  for  a  straight  Democrat.  In  the 
State  outside  these  cities  the  Republican  majorities  reach  70,000  to 
80,000.  It  is  the  strongest  Republican  State  in  the  United  States 
above  Harlem  Bridge,  and  that  mighty  volume  of  Republican 
strength  sweeps  down  upon  us  every  fall,  and  there  we  stand  to  meet 
it  under  Democratic  leadership  and  overcome  it  and  dissipate  it. 

The  Republican  machinery  got  its  ascendancy  in  this  manner  : 
In  the  country  districts  which  are  Republican  they  had  election 
boards  consisting  of  three  members — two  Republicans  and  one 
Democrat.  In  the  city  and  county  of  New  York  they  made  elec- 
tion boards  of  four — two  Democrats  and  two  Republicans,  and 
whenever  a  dispute  could  be  raised  at  the  ballot  boxes,  the  Demo- 
crats in  Democratic  districts  were  kept  in  line,  so  that  five,  six,  and 
eight  thousand  Democratic  voters  were  often  unable  to  get  near 
the  ballot  box,  while  the  inspectors  would  debate  the  qualifications 
of  the  voters,  dishonest  objections  being  raised  by  the  Republican 
inspectors.  When  we  got  possession  of  the  State  Government,  one 
of  our  first  steps  was  to  make  the  election  boards  Democratic  in 
the  city  of  New  York,  giving  the  Republicans  a  minority,  the  same 
as  they  gave  us  in  the  Republican  counties.  Well,  you  would  im- 
agine that  we  were  about  to  take  down  the  pillars  upon  which  the 
temple  of  liberty  and  constitutional  government  rested.  The  Mug- 
wumps and  Republicans  declared  that  the  Constitution  was  in  dan- 
ger, that  the  Republic  was  about  to  be  subverted,  when  the 
Democrats  were  about  to  have  a  chance  to  get  even  justice.  They 
opposed  it  in  the  Legislature,  and  the  Mugwumps,  Democratic  and 
Republican,  went  before  the  Governor  of  our  State,  who  sits  before 
you  no\v,  and  threatened  him  with  political  ruin  if  he  dared  to  sign 
it ;  and  the  Governor  signed  it  just  as  fast  as  he  could  reach  for 
a  pen. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  153 

Now  we  have  a  Democratic  Election  Board,  and  we  have  a  Dem- 
ocratic Governor,  and  we  are  prepared  to  see  that  every  Democrat 
gets  a  chance  to  vote,  and  that  any  man  who  is  willing  to  swear  his 
ballot  into  the  box  shall  have  a  chance  to  cast  it  promptly,  and  let 
him  answer  in  the  courts  if  he  does  wrong  to  any  of  our  statutes. 

Mr.  Orr,  a  delegate  from  Texas,  attempted  to  get  the 
floor. 

MR.  COCKRAN  :  I  yield  to  the  gentleman.  The  gentleman  has  a 
right  to  ask  me  a  question. 

MR.  ORR  :  We  think  the  gentleman  from  New  York  has  had  long 
enough  to  speak. 

A  DELEGATE  FROM  TEXAS  (to  Mr.  Cockran)  :  What  you  have 
done  meets  the  approval  of  the  Texas  delegation. 

MR.  COCKRAN  (continuing) :  I  mention  these  instances  to  you  in 
order  that  you  may  understand  the  kind  of  a  battle  we  have  waged 
in  the  City  and  County  of  New  York  and  the  State  of  New  York  for 
the  past  nine  years.  I  mention  it  to  you  as  the  triumphant  outcome 
of  the  open  and  unreserved  profession  of  the  Democratic  faith. 
You  have  but  to  look  to  the  history  of  1888  to  see  the  results  of 
coquetry  with  Mugwump  pretensions. 

I  have  heard  it  stated  here,  I  think,  by  the  gentleman  from  Penn- 
sylvania, that  in  1884  the  State  of  New  York  protested  against  the 
nomination  of  Mr.  Cleveland,  and  foretold  his  probable  defeat. 
The  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  is  mistaken  in  his  history.  The 
State  of  New  York  voted  for  Mr.  Cleveland  in  1884.  The  State  of 
New  York,  by  an  overwhelming  majority,  presented  his  name  to 
this -Convention.  A  minority  of  the  delegation  protested  in  the  hearing 
of  the  nominating  body  against  the  great  folly  of  imperilling  prospects 
that  looked  as  fair  as  any  that  dawned  over  the  Democracy.  Now, 
the  prophesy  was  not  carried  out  or  realized.  But  why  ?  We  are 
told  that  Mr.  Cleveland  carried  the  State.  We  are  told  that  he  was 
successful  at  the  polls,  but  do  not  the  gentlemen  remember  that  the 
victory  was  due  to  Burchard,  rather  than  to  this  amazing  popularity 
which  appears  to  be  so  great  before  the  eye  in  springtime,  and  so 
impalpable  in  the  colder  lights  of  November  ?  Is  not  this  denial  of 
justice  to  Burchard  enough  to  make  his  grave  clothes  fit  him  uncan- 
nily? isn't  it  enough  to  make  his  bones  turn  in  their  resting  place? 

Is  there  a  greater  instance  of  ingratitude  than  this  forgetfulness 
of  the  gentleman  from  Pennsylvania  to  do  credit  to  the  memory  of 
the  preserver  and  savior  of  the  Democracy  of  the  year  1884? 


154  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

To-day  we  have  a  united  delegation  from  all  the  State,  with  the 
history  that  I  have  mentioned  behind  it,  warning  you,  gentlemen, 
that  this  step  which  you  are  about  to  take  is  fraught  with  imminent 
peril  to  the  Democratic  party.  But  you  remind  me  of  my  profession 
of  loyalty.  You  remind  me  of  the  glorious  history  of  the  organiza- 
tion with  which  I  am  identified,  which  rocked  the  cradle  of  liberty 
and  unfurled  the  banner  of  Democracy  when  Jefferson  was  elected, 
watched  over  our  liberties  through  the  darkest  hours  of  radical 
ascendancy,  kept  alight  the  fires  of  Democracy  in  its  old  home  in 
Fourteenth  Street,  when  there  was  barely  a  hustings  upon  which 
Democratic  faith  could  be  proclaimed  throughout  all  the  Northern 
States.  You  remind  me  of  that  glorious  history,  and  you  say  to  me 
that  we  must  be  loyal  to  the  Democracy  ;  that  the  State  Democracy, 
by  the  record  of  David  B.  Hill,  must  be  loyal  to  the  Democratic  party. 

Aye,  gentlemen,  we  of  the  regular  Democracy  will  be  loyal  to  the 
party,  and  we  will  be  loyal  no  matter  who  is  selected.  We  are  the 
Janizaries  of  the  party.  But  then  all  the  faithful  are  not  comprised 
within  the  ranks  of  the  militant  organization  that  must  bear  the 
brunt  of  the  combat.  We  will  go  back  to  our  people,  if  you  send 
us  back  ;  we  will  take  the  commission  which  you  place  in  our  hands  ; 
we  will  submit  to  the  indignity  and  the  outrage,  and  we  will  try  to 
undo  all  we  have  done  for  nine  years.  We  will  try  to  take  these 
two  irreconcilable  elements,  the  Mugwumps  and  the  Democrats, 
and  fuse  them  into  a  mighty  force  for  victory  in  November,  but  let 
me  warn  you,  gentlemen,  that  the  professions  of  nine  years  and  the 
lessons  of  nine  years  cannot  be  unlearned  in  three  months.  Those 
men  have  been  taught  by  us  to  believe  that  the  Mugmump  was  the 
natural  foe  of  universal  suffrage  and  of  free  Democratic  institutions  ; 
that  his  hostility  to  Democracy  was  based  on  the  fact  that  it  was 
the  party  of  the  horny-handed  and  of  the  brow  that  sweated  with 
toil — if  we  go  back  and  tell  them  now  that  the  Mugwumps  are, 
after  all,  the  true  exponents  of  Democratic  faith,  that  the  Demo- 
cratic Convention  has  accepted  a  nomination  from  their  hands  and 
rejected  the  advice  of  the  Democratic  party,  one  of  two  results  will 
follow,  in  my  judgment  :  Either  these  people  will  doubt  our  sin- 
cerity and  refuse  to  support  the  ticket,  or  else  they  will  concede 
our  sincerity  and  visit  us  with  their  contempt ;  and  in  both  events 
the  ticket  will  be  menaced  with  disaster. 

Now,  remember  that  it  takes  not  much  absenteeism  from  the  polls 
to  damage  Democratic  prospects.  The  dangers  to  Democratic 
success  from  Democratic  sources  are  seldom  visible  on  the  surface. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  155 

The  dangers  from  Mugwump  opposition  are  magnified  ten  thousand- 
fold in  advance  of  the  crucial  test  of  the  ballot  box.  I  never  knew 
a  Mugwump  follower ;  all  the  Mugwumps  I  ever  knew  were  leaders 
and  officers.  You  can  gauge  the  number  of  them  by  the  number  of 
persons  you  can  place  upon  a  platform  ;  the  Mugwump  who  is  not 
placed  upon  the  platform  either  goes  fishing  or  votes  the  other 
ticket.  When  Democrats  become  cold  to  the  party  they  don't  rush 
out  and  be  interviewed.  Democrats  whose  absence  from  the  polls 
will  mean  disaster  give  little  manifestation  of  their  displeasure.  You 
never  realize  the  peril  until  the  day  after  election.  As  in  1888,  we 
were  betting  large  sums  of  money  on  what  seemed  a  sure  thing ; 
yet  when  the  votes  were  counted  that  silent  distrust  of  the  ticket  in 
Democratic  districts  was  found  to  have  blasted  all  our  hopes  and 
ruined  all  our  prospects. 

I  say  to  you,  gentlemen,  to  night,  in  all  candor  and  all  honor,  that 
for  the  personality  of  Mr.  Cleveland  I  have  the  profoundest  respect 
and  for  himself  I  have  even  a  warm  friendship.  I  oppose  him  in 
this  Convention  because  he  comes  between  my  party  and  the  light 
of  success  at  the  polls ;  I  oppose  him  in  this  Convention  because 
his  candidacy  imperils  the  success  of  a  party  which  is  now  visited 
with  bright  and  alluring  prospects.  I  appeal  to  you  to  pause  now 
before  this  contemplated  action  be  consummated,  before  this  in- 
vasion of  my  State  be  made  complete.  Build,  gentlemen,  build 
your  hopes  of  success  not  upon  the  shifting  sands  of  political  specu- 
lation and  prophecy,  not  upon  divided,  discordant,  and  repellant 
forces  which  it  is  impossible  to  fuse  together — build  it  upon  the  solid 
rock  of  Democratic  harmony,  Democratic  unity  and  Democratic  en- 
thusiasm. The  people  whom  you  have  trusted  will  lead  you  to  victory 
by  majorities  so  decisive  that  the  Republican  prospects  throughout 
the  nation  will  undergo  the  same  blight  which  they  have  received 
in  the  State  whose  triumphant  Democracy  asks  you  now  only  for  the 
permission  to  assure  you  a  Democratic  victory  in  November. 

On  the  call,  the  Territory  of  Alaska  responded  as  fol- 
lows : 

The  delegates  from  far  Alaska  are  here  chiefly  by  courtesy.  We 
do  not  desire  to  participate  in  the  nomination ;  but  will  cast  our 
votes  when  the  roll  is  called. 

When  New  Mexico  was  called,  one  of  the  delegates 
responded  as  follows  : 

On  behalf  of  some  of  the  representatives  of  that  disfranchised 
State,  I  second  the  nomination  of  David  B.  Hill,  of  New  York. 


156  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Another  delegate  from  New  Mexico  seconded  the 
nomination  of  Mr.  Cleveland,  and  still  another  that  of 
Governor  Boies. 

When  the  Indian  Territory  was  called,  the  chairman 
of  that  delegation  responded  :  "  We  pass." 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  will  now  direct  a  call  of  the  States  for 
the  purpose  of  voting  for  a  candidate  for  President  of  the  United 
States.  Three  names  have  been  presented  to  the  Convention,  the 
name  of  Grover  Cleveland,  of  New  York ;  that  of  David  B.  Hill,  of 
New  York,  and  that  of  Horace  Boies,  of  Iowa. 

A  delegate  from  New  Mexico  moved  that  the  Con- 
vention now  adjourn  until  11  o'clock,  upon  which  mo- 
tion a  roll  call  was  demanded. 

THE  CHAIR  :  As  there  is  a  demand  for  a  call  of  the  roll  by  States, 
the  Chair  will  direct  that  the  roll  be  called  on  the  motion  to  adjourn. 

MR.  S.  J.  KERNAN  :  I  rise  to  a  parliamentary  inquiry.  I  desire 
to  inquire,  before  the  call  of  the  States  is  proceeded  with,  what  the 
question  is  ? 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  is  on  the  motion  of  the  gentleman  from  New 
Mexico  that  the  Convention  do  now  adjourn  until  to-morrow  morn- 
ing at  10  o'clock,  and  the  roll  of  the  States  has  been  called  for. 

The  mover  of  the  motion  to  adjourn  here  announced 
that  he  withdrew  his  motion  to  adjourn. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  roll  call  of  States  for  votes  upon  the  nomina- 
tions will  now  be  proceeded  with. 

THE  CLERK:     Alabama. 

A  delegate  renewed  the  motion  to  adjourn  until  to- 
morrow morning  at  10  o'clock.  Mr.  Hensel,  of  Penn- 
sylvania, rose  to  a  point  of  order,  that  the  roll  call 
having  begun,  the  motion  to  adjourn  was  not  now  in 
order. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  point  is  well  taken,  and  the  roll  call  of  States 
will  proceed. 

The  call  of  States  was  then  proceeded  with. 
The    result  of  the  ballot  before   any    changes    were 
made  was  as  follows  : 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION. 


157 


BALLOT   FOR    NOMINEES    FOR   THE    PRESIDENCY. 


STATES. 

TOTAL  VOTE 

CLEVELAND. 

t/5 

jjf 

o 

P5 

J 
3 

ffi 

GORMAN. 

CARLISLE. 

STEVENSON. 

CAMPBELL. 

MORRISON. 

RUSSELL. 

WHITNEY. 

PATTISON. 

22 
16 

18 
8 

14 
16 
18 

1 

2 

1 

2 

2 

Arkansas   

5 

3 

Comnecticut        ...              . 

12 
6 
8 
26 
6 

12 
6 
5 
17 

Delaware  

Florida.                                              . 

ft 

Georgia     

6 

5 

4 

Illinois  •.  .  . 

48 
30 
% 

48 
30 

Indiana  

36 

20 
26 
16 
1° 

20 
18 
3 
q 

Kentucky.               .            

2 
11 

6 

Louisiana  

1 
1 

1 
1 

94- 

Maine                   

1 

16 
30 
28 
18 
18 
34 
fi 

6 

24 
28 
18 
8 
34 

Massachusetts  

1 

4 

1 

Michigan 

M  innesota              

Mississippi                    . 

3 

3 

4 

6 

16 
fi 

15 

1 

4 

2 

New  Hampshire 

8 
20 

72 

8 
20 

New  Jersey           ..        

79 

North  Carolina.      .,  

22 
6 

46 

8 

(if 

3* 
6 
14 
8 
64 

1 

16* 

1 

•• 

North  Dakota 

Ohio 

16 

6 

5 

5 

Oregon.                    ,  

Rhode  Island 

8 
18 
8 
9  4 

8 
2 

7 
94 

13 

1 

q 
t. 

30 
8 
24 
8 
12 

Ox) 

23 
8 
12 
8 

7 
94 

6 

i 

11 

1 

.... 

i 

3 

1 

6 
2 
6 
2 
6 
2 
2 
2 

3 
2 
5 
2 
4 
2 
2 
2 

3 

1 

1 

i 

Utah 

Totals  .  . 

o 
i 

1 

910 

617* 

103 

114 

36* 

14 

16* 

0 

o 

1 

1 

158  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


RECAPITULATION    OF   VOTE. 

Cleveland .' 61?i 

Hill 114 

Boies 103 

Morrison 3 

Campbell 2 

Gorman 36£ 

Carlisle 14 

Stevenson 16| 

Pattison 1 

Russell 1 

Whitney 1 


Total  votes  cast 909£ 

Necessary  for  a  choice 607 

A  delegate  moved  that  the  nomination  of  Grover 
Cleveland  be  made  unanimous.  Before  this  motion 
could  be  put,  another  delegate  moved  that  the  rule  be 
suspended,  and  that  Grover  Cleveland  be  nominated  by 
this  Convention  by  acclamation. 

Senator  Daniel,  of  Virginia,  was  recognized  by  the 
Chairman  and  said  : 

The  Democratic  party  of  the  United  States  have  uttered  their 
voice  through  the  lips  of  their  chosen  delegates,  and  by  that  voice 
it  has  been  decreed  that  Grover  Cleveland  is  the  nominee  of  every 
Democrat  in  this  Convention  for  the  office  of  President  of  the 
United  States.  On  behalf  of  the  delegation  from  Virginia  which 
came  here  divided,  but  who  will  go  forth  as  one,  on  behalf  of  every 
true  and  tried  Democrat  who  loves  the  great  party  that  bears  the 
banner  of  the  people,  I  move  you  sir,  now,  that  one  thousand  voices 
shall  ascend  from  this  Convention,  and  that  their  only  words  shall 
be  that  Grover  Cleveland  is  their  leader  in  this  great  campaign. 
There  must  be  never  a  laggard  in  this  fight ;  each  and  every  man 
must  lay  aside  all  feeling  of  resentment,  and  in  good  faith  come 
forward  and  give  this  chosen  leader  the  same  loyalty  which  he  would 
demand  had  the  man  of  his  choice  been  designated  by  this  Con- 
vention as  the  nominee  of  the  party.  We  must,  we  can,  and  we 
will,  my  countrymen,  carry  this  contest  to  a  triumphant  close  ;  I 
move  you  that  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland  be  made  unani- 
mous. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  159 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  Hon.  Grover  Cleve- 
land, of  New  York,  was  declared  to  be  the  nominee  of 
the  Democratic  party  for  the  office  of  President  of  the 
United  States. 

The  Chairman  recognized  Governor  Flower,  of  the 
New  York  delegation  ;  but  the  confusion  was  so  great 
that  he  could  not  be  heard. 

HON.  BOURKE  COCKRAN,  of  New  York :  Mr.  Chairman,  there 
have  been  some  expressions  of  dissent  in  the  neighborhood  of  this 
delegation  to  the  call  which  was  put  by  the  Chair;  and  as  no  roll 
was  called,  I  deem  it  my  duty  to  state  to  this  Convention  that  on 
the  motion  to  make  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland  unanimous, 
the  vote  of  the  State  of  New  York,  in  full  accord  with  the  sentiment 
of  the  Convention,  was  cast  in  the  affirmative. 

On  the  simultaneous  motion  of  many  delegates,  after 
having  been  in  continuous  session  all  night,  the  Con- 
vention adjourned  at  4.40  A.  M.,  to  meet  at  two  o'clock, 
Thursday,  June  23,  1892. 


160  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


THIRD    DAY. 


CHICAGO,  June  23,  1892. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  by  the  Chairman 
at  2.55  P.  M.,  in  the  following  words : 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Convention  will  come  to  order.  Prayer  will 
be  offered  by  Rev.  Dr.  Green,  of  Iowa. 

REV.  THOMAS  E.  GREEN  :  Will  the  delegates  oblige  me  by  taking 
their  seats  that  I  may  make  the  opening  prayer.  We  are  about  to 
engage  in  prayer ;  will  you  kindly  cease  conversation  for  just  a 
moment. 

PRAYER. 

Let  us  pray:  We  thank  Thee,  Almighty  God,  for  this  another 
day.  Vouchsafe  to  us,  we  pray,  that  we  may  appreciate  its  possi- 
bilities and  be  true  to  its  responsibilities,  and  as  we  come  to  com- 
plete the  work  that  Thou  hast  given  us  to  do,  we  pray  anew  for  Thy 
direction  and  guidance.  Oh,  Thou  God  of  battles,  Thou  God  of 
truth,  Thou  God  of  humanity,  may  the  right  be  mighty  and  prevail. 
Speed  Thou  the  people's  cause.  May  the  rule  of  oppression  of  class 
and  of  wealth  be  broken  down.  May  the  rule  of  humanity  on  the 
broad  platform  of  the  Carpenter  of  Nazareth  be  triumphant  and  pre- 
vail, and  in  this  contest  may  that  which  is  righteous  be  everywhere 
established.  May  those  who  are  to  be  elected  to  preside  over  the 
destinies  of  this  nation  be  true  to  our  motto  that  "  Public  office  is  a 
public  trust,"  and  reverencing  Thee  and  serving  the  nation,  may 
they  receive  of  Thee  that  benediction  that  is  above  all  benedictions 
of  earth,  the  benediction  of  duty  rightly  done.  And  so  may  the 
angels  of  charity  and  humanity  brood  over  this  broad  land  and 
bless  it  with  the  kiss  of  peace,  and  may  Thy  kingdom  come  and 
Thy  will  be  done  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven.  We  ask  it  for  Christ's 
sake.  Amen. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  Convention  will  come  to  order. 

HON.  S.  M.  WHITE,  of  California :  I  rise  to  ask  when  and  where 
the  Committee  on  Notification  will  meet. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  161 

THE  READING  CLERK  :  I  atn  directed  by  the  Chair  to  say  that 
the  Committee  on  Notification  will  meet  at  the  President's  desk 
immediately  after  the  final  adjournment  of  the  Convention. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  next  order  of  business  is  the  nomination  of 
candidates  for  the  office  of  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 
The  Clerk  will  now  call  the  roll  of  States  in  their  order  for  nomina- 
tion for  that  office. 

GOVERNOR  PORTER,  of  Tennessee  :  I  have  a  resolution  to  offer 
which  I  will  send  up  to  the  desk. 

The  resolution  was  then  read  as  follows  : 

Resolved,  That  nominating  speeches  be  limited  to  five  minutes 
each,  and  that  seconding  speeches  be  limited  to  two  minutes  each. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

The  call  of  the  States  then  proceeded. 

For  Alabama,  E.  W.  Pettis,  delegate- at- large,  stated 
that  they  had  no  nomination  to  make.  The  chairman 
of  the  Arkansas  delegation  stated  that  they  desired  to 
pass  the  nomination  in  favor  of  Indiana. 

In  response  to  the  call  of  Indiana,  the  chairman  of 
the  delegation,  Hon.  S.  E.  Morss,  stated  that  Hon. 
John  E.  Lamb  would  present,  on  behalf  of  the  Indiana 
delegates,  the  name  of  a  citizen  of  that  State  for  Vice- 
President. 

THE  CHAIR  :  I  have  the  honor  to  present  to  you  the  Hon.  J.  E. 
Lamb,  of  Indiana. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  JOHN    E.  LAMB. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  :  When  I  was 
elected  a  delegate  to  this  Convention  from  my  district,  I  hoped  to 
have  the  honor,  as  well  as  the  pleasure,  of  casting  my  vote  for  an 
honored  son  of  Indiana  for  the  Presidency  of  the  United  States. 
But,  on  my  arrival  at  this  Convention,  it  was  found  that  the  majority 
had  already  decided  that  another  than  an  Indianian  should  lead  the 
contest  in  the  coming  campaign.  We  bowed  our  heads  to  their 
judgment  and  united  with  the  Cleveland  Democracy  of  Indiana. 

Yesterday  Grover  Cleveland  was  the  choice  of  a  majority  of  the 
Democratic  party,  to-day  he  is  the  unanimous  nominee  of  the 
11 


162  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Democratic  party,  and  the  question  which  confronts  this  Convention 
is,  Who  shall  it  be  that  will  have  the  honor  to  hold  up  the  hands  and 
the  arms  of  the  candidate  who  carries  the  banner  of  Democracy  in 
this  campaign  ?  Where  shall  he  come  from?  Xew  Jersey?  New 
Jersey,  God  bless  her,  is  always  Democratic.  Connecticut  is  surely 
safe,  and  when,  the  dawn  broke  upon  us  this  morning,  after  a  night 
of  struggle  and  of  toil,  the  eloquent  tongue  of  the  distinguished 
gentleman  from  New  York,  the  Hon.  Bourke  Cockran,  whose  name 
I  love  to  honor,  told  this  Convention  that  New  York  was  as  rock- 
ribbed  as  Texas  for  any  Democrat  that  could  be  made  the  nominee 
of  this  Convention.  That  being  true,  the  thirty-six  electoral  votes 
of  the  great  State  of  New  York  are  solid  for  that  prince  of  Demo- 
crats, Grover  Cleveland. 

I  come  from  the  State  which  is  the  centre  of  the  political  battle- 
field of  the  great  West ;  the  State  which  has  given  to  the  history  of 
American  politics  the  immortal  name  of  Thomas  A.  Hendricks. 
Whenever  the  Democratic  party  has  listened  to  its  advice,  whenever 
it  has  honored  the  State  of  Indiana  with  a  place  upon  its  ticket, 
whether  it  was  in  the  gran.d  battle  of  1876,  the  fruits  of  which  vic- 
tory were  stolen  from  us,  or  in  the  grand  battle  of  1884,  when  you 
had  Indiana  on  the  ticket,  you  had  Democratic  victory. 

And  now  in  behalf  of  this  State,  which  has  never  faltered,  which 
has  never  sulked,  which  has  fought  every  inch  of  ground,  I  desire, 
in  behalf  of  the  united  delegation  from  Indiana,  to  ask  this  Con- 
vention to  make  fifteen  votes  in  the  electoral  college  certain  by 
placing  upon  your  ticket  the  name  of  an  honored  leader  who  never 
lost  a  battle,  Hon.  Isaac  P.  Gray. 

As  to  our  candidate,  he  has  been  tried  in  the  balance  and  never 
found  wanting.  In  the  great  contest  of  1884  he  carried  the  State 
of  Indiana  for  governor  by  a  thousand  more  votes  than  Cleveland 
and  Hendricks.  What  more  could  I  say  for  him?  The  tongue  of 
slander  has  never  been  able  to  pierce  his  Democratic  armor.  For 
twenty  years  he  has  fought  the  battles  of  Democracy.  He  will 
fight  them  again,  whether  upon  the  ticket  or  not;  but,  my  friends, 
if  there  is  to  be  a  certainty  of  fifteen  electoral  votes  for  Grover 
Cleveland  and  Isaac  P.  Gray  in  the  State  of  Indiana,  nominate  that 
ticket  and  we  will  deliver  the  votes. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Hon.  Isaac  P.  Gray  has  been  placed  in  nomination 
by  Mr.  Lamb,  of  Indiana. 

HON.  T.  J.  O'DONNELL,  of  Colorado  :  Colorado  has  no  nominee 
and  yields  its  place  to  Illinois. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  163 

HON.  N.  E.  WORTHINGTON,  of  Illinois,  said  :  . 

ADDRESS    OF    N.  E.  WORTHINGTON. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Fellow  Delegates : — Illinois  has  presented  no 
Presidential  candidate  to  this  Convention.  It  has  within  its  bor- 
ders more  than  one  favorite  son  whom  it  would  have  delighted  to 
honor,  and  who  are  worthy  of  all  the  political  honors  that  could  be 
Conferred  upon  them ;  but  here,  in  this  great  city  of  Chicago,  in 
this  great  commonwealth  of  Illinois  bordering  upon  the  lake  and 
the  Mississippi,  in  the  center  of  this  great  Republic,  the  Democracy 
caught  the  vibration  of  the  ground  swell  that  came  from  the  South, 
and  the  East,  and  the  West,  put  aside  its  favorite  sons,  and  for  the 
time  buried  its  State  pride,  and  echoing  back  Texas,  Connecticut 
and  California,  with  forty-eight  votes  shouted  the  name  of  Grover 
Cleveland.  But  for  the  Vice-Presidency,  for  the  second  highest 
place  in  the  gift  of  the  people,  it  has  a  candidate  so  fully  equipped 
by  nature  and  education  that  it  feels  that  it  would  be  a  political  fault 
to  fail  to  urge  his  name  for  nomination  before  you.  I  stand  here, 
gentlemen,  to  name  a  candidate  for  that  position.  A  man  that  is 
known  by  every  woman,  child  and  voter  that  ever  licked  a  postage 
stamp,  in  every  village  and  hamlet  in  the  land.  A  big-bodied,  big- 
hearted,  big-brained  man.  A  man  of  commanding  presence  and  of 
dignified  mien  ;  a  man  whose  coujtesy  in  his  every-day  manners  is 
rarely  equaled,  and  never  excelled ;  a  man  who,  in  the  administra- 
tion of  his  duties  in  the  last  Democratic  administration,  was  the 
beau  ideal  of  an  honest,  honorable,  useful  and  efficient  Democratic 
office-holder.  Like  his  great  leader,  who  is  to  bear  your  banner, 
he  believes  that  a  public  office  is  a  public  trust,  but  he  believes, 
also,  that  the  Democrats  are  the  best  trustees  of  this  public  trust. 
Nor  can  the  pride  of  office  make  him  proud  and  haughty.  I  appeal  to 
every  Senator  present  here  if  he  ever  found  the  haughtiness  of  office 
produce  a  chilliness  in  the  atmosphere  of  the  room  of  the  Assistant 
Postmaster  General  during  Cleveland's  administration. 

Gentlemen,  we  have  nailed  our  banner  to  the  mast.  The  Demo- 
cratic party  never  surrenders.  We  propose  to  make  true  what  our 
Republican  friends  say  of  us,  that  we  do  our  quarreling  before  the 
Convention  and  fighting  against  our  enemies  afterwards.  We 
believe  that  every  Democrat  will  put  on  his  armor.  We,  in  the 
West,  have  been  making  a  magnificent  campaign  of  late  years;  we 
have  been  educating  the  people  ;  and  the  proud  results  are  seen  in 


164  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

JJoyd,  of  Nebraska ;  Boies,  of  Iowa  ;  and  Peck,  of  Wisconsin.''.  They 
are  seen  in  that  grand  old  man  who  represents  Illinois  in  the  United 
States  Senate.  They  are  seen'in  the  reduction  of  the  Republican 
majority  from  60,000  to  13,000  in  Illinois.  They  are  seen  in  a 
Democratic  Treasurer  and  Superintendent  of  Instruction  now  in 
this  State.  We  propose,  in  this  campaign,  to  take  the  last  citadel. 
We  have  a  Governor  that  we  are  going  to  elect.  Will  you  help  us 
give  the  twenty-four  electoral  votes  to  Grover  Cleveland  ?  If  you 
will,  vote  for  the  man  whose  name  I  now  present;  a  man  who  does 
not  have  to  get  a  certificate  from  a  labor  organization  to  prove  that 
he  is  a  friend  of  the  people  ;  a  man  whom  we  all  love — Adlai  E. 
Stevenson,  of  Illinois. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  name  of  Hon.  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois, 
is  presented  to  the  Convention.  The  Secretary  will  proceed  with 
the  call. 

In  response  to  the  call  of  Connecticut,  Senator  Rob- 
ert J.  Vance,  of  that  State,  said  : 

MR.  VANCE  :  The  Delegation  from  the  State  of  Connecticut  is 
firmly  convinced  that,  in  the  making  of  a  ticket  that  shall  go  on  ir- 
resistibly to  victory  next  November,  the  wishes,  the  desires  and  the 
hopes  of  the  great  State  of  Indiana  should  be  considered.  We 
think  that  the  proper  way  in  which  to  supplement  the  work  that  was 
done  early  this  morning  is  to  consider  the  wishes  of  that  State. 
And,  therefore,  I  take  pleasure  in  seconding  the  nomination  which  will 
give  us  a  ticket,  if  the  motion  is  successful,  and  the  vote  of  Con- 
necticut is  in  the  majority,  under  which  New  York,  Indiana,  New 
Jersey  and  the  sole  Democratic  State  in  New  England,  Connecticut, 
shall  all  fight,  a  banner  on  which  shall  be  inscribed  the  names  of 
Cleveland  and  Gray. 

Delaware,  Florida  and  Georgia  announced,  through 
their  respective  chairmen,  that  they  had  no  candidate  to 
present. 

When  Idaho  was  called,  Mr.  Hawley,  of  that  State's 
delegation,  said  : 

Idaho  has  no  name  to  present,  Mr.  Chairman,  but  we  take  pleas- 
ure in  seconding  the  nomination  of  that  distinguished  son  of  Indi- 
ana, Isaac  P.  Gray. 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  165 

When  Illinois  was  reached,  John  A.  King,  of  Chi- 
cago, arose  and  requested  that  this  State  be  passed  for 
the  time  being. 

When  Iowa's  turn  arrived,  Hon.  J.  H.  Shields,  of 
Dubuque,  spoke  for  his  delegation,  as  follows  : 

Iowa  has  no  candidate  for  Vice- President.  I  wish  to  say  just  one 
word  before  you  pass  Iowa.  I  have  said  that  Iowa  has  no  candi- 
date for  Vice-President.  I  also  wish  to  say  that  it  is  the  personal 
wish  of  Governor  Boies,  it  is  the  personal  wish  of  the  Iowa  delega- 
tion, and  it  is  the  wish  of  the  Democracy  of  Iowa,  that  he  be  not 
nominated  nor  named  as  a  candidate  for  the  Vice-Presidency  in 
this  Convention.  I  say  this  believing  that  you  might  as  well  know 
it  first  at  last. 

When  Kansas  was  reached,  the  chairman  of  the  dele- 
gation said  : 

On  behalf  of  the  delegation  from  the  State  of  Kansas,  it  is  desired 
that  Mr.  Tully  Scott,  one  of  the  delegates,  second  the  nomination 
of  one  of  the  candidates  already  named. 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.  TULLY   SCOTT. 

Hailing  from  a  State  that  in  1888  gave  a  majority  of  80,000  for  a 
Republican  candidate,  and  through  the  efforts,  through  the  services 
and  the  gallant  devotion  of  the  Democracy  of  that  State,  that  tre- 
mendous  [and  enormous  majority  was  reduced  two  years  later,  in 
1890,  to  a  minority  of  47,000.  We  believe,  sir,  that  in  this  nomina- 
tion there  ought  to  be  practical  politics.  We  believe,  sir,  that,  in 
the  language  of  a  late  gallant  son  of  Indiana,  the  books  of  this 
Nation  ought  to  be  open,  and  therefore  the  Democracy  of  Kansas 
believes,  knowing  that  Mr.  Harrison  is  from  Indiana,  that  if  there 
is  any  State  pride  in  this  canvas,  the  Democracy  ought  to  be  in  it, 
and  I  am  instructed,  therefore,  Mr.  Chairman,  on  behalf  of  the  del- 
egation from  Kansas,  to  second  the  nomination  of  Isaac  P.  Gray, 
of  Indiana. 

Kentucky  was  then  called,  and  Mr.  Bronston  said  : 

The  State  of  Kentucky  has  no  candidate  to  present  for  Vice- 
President  ;  but,  in  behalf  and  at  the  request  of  a  part  of  the  delega- 
tion from  Kentucky,  Hon.  John  S.  Rhea,  one  of  our  delegates,  will 
second  the  nomination  of  a  gentleman  before  this  Convention. 


166  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  present  to  you 
Hon.  J.  S.  Rhea,  of  Kentucky. 

ADDRESS    OF   HON.    JOHN    S.    RHEA. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Convention  : — Hailing  from 
that  great  commonwealth  which  is  the  birthplace  of  tariff  reform 
and  the  home  of  the  star-eyed  goddess,  I  second  the  nomination  of 
the  Hon.  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois.  Going  back  to  the  time 
when  modern  prophets  of  tax  reform  were  infants,  mewling  and 
puking  in  their  nurses'  arms,  Kentucky,  through  Elijah  Hise  and 
Lynn  Boyd,  dared  to  beard  the  lion  in  his  den,  the  Douglas  in  his 
hall,  and  meet  Henry  Clay  on  his  chosen  battle-ground  and  declare 
the  doctrine  that  it  was  the  inalienable,  inherent  right  of  every  man 
to  sell  the  product  of  his  labor  in  that  market  which  would  pay  him 
the  greatest  price,  and  spend  its  return  in  that  same  market  unre- 
stricted by  law,  save  and  except  sc;  far  as  might  be  necessary  to 
raise  money  to  bear  the  expenses  of  a  Government,  honestly  and 
economically  administered. 

Kentucky  takes  her  Democracy  like  she  does  her  whisky — 
straight. 

I  come  before  this  Convention  representing  that  contingent  which 
was  fearful  to  follow  the  flag  of  Grover  Cleveland  or  get  on  the  band 
wagon,  because  they  feared  they  might  follow  the  Democratic  hearse 
in  November  ;  but  in  the  presence  of  this  vast  assembly  I  have  been 
overwhelmed  by  the  enthusiasm  that  greets  his  great  name,  and  I 
believe  we  are  on  the  high  road  to  Democratic  success.  I  support 
Illinois'  candidate  because  I  understand  he  is  a  Democrat  who  be- 
lieves that  to  the  victor  belong  the  spoils.  Because  he  believes, 
further,  that  there  are  honest  and  competent  men  enough  in  the 
Democratic  party  to  fill  all  the  offices,  and  I  make  the  assertion 
that  if  he  is  placed  in  this  high  position  Mugwumps  and  Repub- 
licans will  receive  no  quarter  at  his  hands. 

The  States  of  Louisiana,  Maine,  Maryland  and  Massa- 
chusetts announced,  through  their  respective  chairmen, 
that  they  had  no  candidate  to  present. 

When  the  State  of  Michigan  was  called,  the  chairman 
of  the  delegation  said: 

Michigan  wishes  to  present  a  candidate  through  Hon.  Edwin  F. 
Uhl. 


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THE  CHAIR:  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention:  I  present  to  you 
the  Hon.  Edwin  F.  Uhl,  of  the  State  of  Michigan. 

ADDRESS   OF    HON.    EDWIN    F.    UHL. 

If  my  memory  is  accurate,  it  was  within  a  pistol  shot  of  where 
this  convention  hall  now  stands  that  the  great  Senator  from  New 
York,  in  1880,  in  addressing  himself  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  said:  "Any  Republican  can  carry  Michigan." 
He  spoke  with  the  knowledge  that  for  twenty-five  years  the 
Peninsular  State  had  given  majorities  to  his  party  rising  as  high 
as  60,000.  Not  long  thereafter,  in  1885,  the  Senator  saw  that  Re- 
publican column  shattered  by  a  Democratic  lawyer,  who  was  elected 
to  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court,  the  highest  appellate  tribunal 
in  the  State,  by  a  majority  of  30,000.  That  lawyer  was  the  Hon. 
Allen  B.  Morse,  its  present  Chief  Justice.  His  adversary  was  the 
Hon.  Thomas  M.  Cooley,  who,  by  common  consent,  had  taken  rank 
among  the  foremost  jurists  of  his  time,  and  whose  renown  as  such 
had  passed  the  boundaries  of  the  continent.  Following  that  victory 
the  delegates  from  my  State  on  the  floor  of  this  Convention,  come 
to  the  great  council  of  the  party  as  representatives  of  the  triumph- 
ant Democracy  in  Michigan.  They  come  with  a  State  administra- 
tion behind  them  solidly  Democratic,  with  a  Democratic  Legislature 
pioneer  in  this  generation  in  the  enactment  of  an  electoral  law 
which  brings  the  choice  of  the  Chief  Magistrate  of  the  Nation 
nearer  to  the  citizen.  They  believe  they  can  hold  the  citadel  against 
the  assaults  of  the  enemy  in  the  coming  contest.  They  are  pre- 
pared to  pledge  to  the  National  Democracy  nine  out  of  Michigan's 
fourteen  electoral  votes.  They  offer  more.  Nominate  here  and  now, 
as  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Vice-President,  Michigan's  soldier 
Chief  Justice,  whom  I  have  the  honor,  at  the  instance  of  my  dele- 
gation, to  present,  and  she  will  give  the  entire  fourteen.  They  offer 
still  more.  Make  that  nomination,  and  thousands  of  votes  will  be 
secured  for  the  national  ticket  in  the  doubtful  States  of  the  Union, 
which  will  be  lost  by  a  nomination  less  wise,  and  which  may  decide 
the  contest. 

With  no  thought  to  detract  a  feather's  weight  from  the  just  claims 
of  the  distinguished  gentlemen  who  have  been  or  who  may  be 
named  in  connection  with  this  nomination,  I  respectfully  insist  that 
Michigan's  candidate  has  elements  of  strength  superior  to  them  all. 
He  was  a  brave  soldier.  He  carries  an  armless  sleeve.  This  is 
much,  but  it  is  not  all.  He  is  an  able  lawyer,  a  wise  legislator,  and 


168  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

a  profound  jurist.  He  is  in  the  full  flush  of  manhood,  just  past  the 
meridian  of  life.  He  is  especially  strong  with  the  people ;  he  is 
especially  strong  with  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic.  From 
1861  to  1865  he  fought  with  dauntless  courage  to  make  certain  an 
indestructible  Union  of  indestructible  States;  but  when  the  contest 
was  over,  when  the  integrity  of  the  Union  was  saved  from  the  wreck 
of  war,  he  fought  no  more.  Entering  the  service  as  a  private  in  the 
Sixteenth  Michigan  Infantry,  he  participated  in  every  battle  of  the 
Peninsula  campaign.  He  was  in  the  fierce  fire  at  Antietam  under 
McClellan.  He  was  with  Pope  at"  Manassas.  He  stood  by  the 
Rock  of  Chickamauga,  fit  follower  of  that  leader  of  adamant.  He 
was  in  the  red  storm  at  Mission  Ridge,  as  Assistant  Adjutant-Gen- 
eral in  the  Fourth  Army  Corps. 

While  leading  his  men  he  left  an  arm  on  those  historic  heights. 
Himself  binding  up  his  wounds  with  the  one  hand  remaining,  he 
did  not  quit  the  field,  but  fought  on  single-handed  in  the  strict  sense 
of  the  term  to  the  close  of  that  memorable  struggle.  With  an  arm 
torn  away,  he  remained  in  active  service  in  the  field  to  the  close  of 
September  following,  and  upon  his  retirement  received  a  most  flat- 
tering testimonial  from  Gen.  Sheridan,  as  to  his  worth,  both  as  a 
soldier  and  an  officer. 

Out  of  the  galaxy  of  gallant  heroes  in  the  firmament  of  Democ- 
racy, who  are  sprinkled  as  stars  in  its  depths,  can  you  name  me 
one  of  sterner  stuff  or  cast  in  a  more  heroic  mold?  When  the  brave 
men  who  wore  the  gray,  with  whom  he  had  on  many  a  field  crossed 
bayonets,  turned  back  to  their  war-wasted  homes,  when  once  again 
from  every  roof-tree  of  the  South  there  floated  the  flag  of  the  Re- 
public, there  was  no  bitterness  left  in  his  heart.  He  would  obliterate 
rather  the  traces  of  the  war  with  the  same  hand  that  smote  ;  he 
would  obscure  the  recollection  of  bitterness  engendered  in  the  hot 
blast  at  Gettysburg  and  Antietam  by  the  memory  of  the  brave  deeds 
which  there  gave  new  meaning  to  heroism  on  either  side,  and  by 
the  common  glory  of  Bunker  Hill  and  Yorktown. 

Do  you  remember,  my  fellow-delegates,  that  there  are  yet  surviv- 
ing nearly  1,000,000  members  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic? 
Do  you  remember  that  they  hold  in  highest  esteem  and  honor, 
whenever  opportunity  presents,  one  who  has  taken  his  place  in  the 
ranks  and  fought  his  own  way  to  position  and  fame?  Can  you  fail 
to  appreciate  that  the  nomination  of  this  man  will  light  the  torch  of 
enthusiasm  around  every  camp-fire  of  the  Grand  Army  and  add 
much  strength  to  your  ticket?  I  have  said  he  is  strong  with  the 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  169 

people.  He  is  one  of  the  people  in  the  strictest  sense  of  that  term. 
He  is  near  to  the  people,  he  knows  their  wants,  their  burdens,  their 
hopes,  their  aspirations.  He  sympathizes  with  the  people  and  they 
in  turn  give  him  their  confidence  and  support  in  the  fullest  measure. 
Twice  elected  as  State's  Attorney  in  a  Republican  district,  elected 
State  Senator  by  2,200  majority  in  a  district  which  gave  Grant  2,700 
majority  over  Greeley,  elected  Mayor  of  his  city  when  everyone  on 
the  ticket  besides  was  defeated,  receiving  the  highest  number  of 
votes  of  any  candidate  on  the  ticket  as  Attorney-General,  and  finally 
elected  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  by  a  triumphant  majority — 
these  are  the  touch-stones  by  which  his  strength  with  the  people 
has  been  tested.  He  is  a  great  campaigner,  a  vigorous  debater,  who 
will  bring  converts  to  our  cause  and  supporters  to  himself  wherever 
he  is  heard. 

Be  assured  his  learning  and  ability  are  commensurate  with  the 
duties  of  the  high  office  to  which  we  would  elevate  him.  To  what- 
ever station  of  duty  he  has  been  called  he  has  been  found  fit  for  the 
largest  service  to  the  commonwealth.  Trained  in  the  tenets  formu- 
lated by  Jefferson  and  enforced  by  J  ackson  and  Cleveland,  he  stands 
for  the  equality  of  all  citizens,  for  the  reserved  rights  of  the  States, 
for  the  supremacy  of  the  Federal  Government  within  constitutional 
limitations,  for  the  assertion  of  self-government  and  home  rule. 
Such  is  our  candidate.  We  present  the  Hon.  Allen  B.  Morse,  Chief 
Justice  of  Michigan,  for  Vice- President. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Allen  B.  Morse,  of  Michigan  is  put  in  nomination. 
The  Secretary  will  proceed  with  the  call. 

In  answer  to  the  call,  the  chairman  of  the  delegations 
from  Minnesota,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  Montana,  Ne- 
braska, Nevada,  New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey  and  New 
York  responded  that  they  had  no  candidates  to  present 
to  the  Convention. 

When  the  State  of  North  Carolina  was  called,  Hon. 
Kope  Ellas,  of  its  delegation,  addressed  the  Convention 
as  follows  : 

ADDRESS    OF    HON.    KOPE    ELIAS. 

I  rise,  sir,  and  gentlemen  of  this  Convention,  to  second  in  behalf 
of  the  delegation  to  this  Convention  from  the  State  of  North  Caro- 
lina, the  nomination  of  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois.  Although 


170  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

he  lives  in  the  State  of  Illinois,  we  claim  him  as  a  North  Carolinian, 
because  his  ancestry  were  of  us.  General  Stevenson  is  entitled  to 
the  nomination  of  this  Convention  for  the  second  place  on  its  ticket. 
Why  do  I  say  this?  Because,  Mr.  Chairman  and  fellow  delegates, 
it  would  be  simply  the  proper  recognition  of  his  valiant  service 
upon  the  battle-fields  in  defense  of  our  indissoluble  Union.  His 
record  has  been  made  as  a  military  officer.  While  Grover  Cleve- 
land was  presiding  as  Chief  Executive  of  this  government  he  called 
General  Stevenson  to  his  council  as  First  Assistant  Postmaster-Gen- 
eral of  the  United  States.  If  General  Stevenson  was  recognized  as 
possessing  the  requisite  wisdom  and  capacity  to  have  a  seat  in  the 
cabinet  of  the  President,  then  Grover  Cleveland,  and  since  you  have 
renominated  Mr.  Cleveland  for  this  highest  office  in  the  gift  of  the 
American  people,  why  not  recognize  the  eminent  fitness  of  General 
Stevenson  for  the  office  of  Vice-President  of  this  government  by 
placing  him  in  the  second  place  on  the  Democratic  ticket? 

North  Dakota,  Ohio,  Oregon,  Pennsylvania,  Rhode 
Island,  South  Carolina  and  South  Dakota  made  no 
response  when  their  names  were  called,  and  signified 
that  they  had  no  candidate  for*  presentation. 

When  the  name  of  the  State  of  Tennessee  was  called, 
Hon.  James  Cunningham  responded  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  there  is  a  State  in  the  American  union  that  has 
given  the  Democratic  party  a  Jackson,  the  hero  of  New  Orleans, 
who  first  announced  the  doctrine  that  to  the  victors  belong  the 
spoils.  That  same  State  gave  to  the  Democratic  party  a  Polk,  under 
whose  administration  an  empire  was  added  to  our  country.  That 
same  State  gave  to  the  Democratic  party  a  Johnson,  whose  name  is 
immortal.  As  the  representative  of  a  majority  of  the  delegation  of 
that  State,  I  now  second  the  nomination  of  Isaac  P.  Gray. 

Texas,  through  the  chairman  of  the  delegation,  Hon. 
John  Ireland,  seconded  the  nomination  of  Adlai  E. 
Stevenson. 

Vermont  announced  through  the  chairman  of  its  dele- 
gation that  it  had  no  candidate  to  present. 

In  response  to  the  name  of  the  State  of  Virginia, 
Hon.  John  Goode,  of  that  State,  said  : 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  171 

On  behalf  of  a  portion  of  the  Virginia  delegation,  I  rise  to 
second  the  nomination  of  Adlai  E.  Stevenstfn,  of  Illinois. 

In  response  to  the  name  of  the  State  of  Washington, 
H.  J.  Snively  said  : 

The  State  of  Washington  has  no  candidate  for  the  office  of  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States,  but  she  will  cast  her  eight  solid 
votes  for  the  gallant  gentleman  from  the  State  of  Indiana,  Isaac 
P.  Gray. 

West  Virginia  announced  through  the  chairman  of 
its  delegation  that  it  has  no  candidate  to  present. 

S.  W.  LAMEROUX,  of  Wisconsin  :  Wisconsin  desires  the  privilege 
of  addressing  this  Convention  through  their  eminent  statesman  and 
warrior,  General  Edward  S.  Bragg. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  I  present  to  you 
Hon.  Edward  S.  Bragg,  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin. 

ADDRESS    OF   GENERAL   EDWARD    S.    BRAGG. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention : — On  behalf  of  the  delegation  of 
the  State  in  which  I  live,  which,  for  the.  first  time  in  many  years 
presents  herself  in  convention  with  the  authority  to  state  for  her, 
Democratic  Wisconsin,  I  am  chosen  to  present  a  candidate  for  her. 
If  I  knew  the  particular  qualifications  that  each — (interrupted  by 
cries  of  "Louder"  from  the  galleries)  I  am  not  in  the  habit  of  talk- 
ing to  the  galleries  ;  if  I  were  I  would  remind  them  of  the  old  tale  of 
that  fellow  who  came  up  last  when  Gabriel  blowed  his  horn  and 
called  out  "Louder."  Here  stand  the  men  I  am  talking  to  (indi- 
cating the  delegates).  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  Wisconsin 
has  within  her  borders,  if  you  wish  it  and  desire  it  as  a  qualification, 
a  soldier — 

At  this  point  the  rain  came  down  in  torrents,  accom- 
panied by  heavy  thunder,  and  the  voice  of  the  speaker 
was  entirely  drowned  and  he  was  obliged  to  await  the 
storm's  subsidence.  The  band  struck  up  with  the  baby 
song  from  "Wang"  and  the  Pennsylvania  delegation, 
taking  advantage  of  the  air,  gathered  around  Mr.  Hensel 
and  sang  a  selection  from  a  hand-bill  which  had  been 
distributed  through  the  hall  ;  a  large  portion  of  the 


172  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Convention  joined  in  the  singing.  Several  attempts 
were  made  to  do  convention  business,  but  while  the 
storm  raged  it  was  the  regular  order,  and  all  acquiesced 
in  the  edict  of  a  Higher  Authority  than  that  of  the 
Convention  Chairman. 

In  the  disorder  Mr.  Ryan,  of  Michigan,  advanced  to 
the  platform  and  addressed  the  Chairman  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman  : — After  sitting  here  in  this  building  in  an  all- 
night  session,  with  the  rain  pouring  in  upon  us,  I  think,  if  possible, 
we  ought  to  transact  our  business  as  rapidly  as  we  can  do  it  and 
adjourn  to  our  homes. 

When  order  was  partially  restored,  the  Chairman 
requested  Gen.  Bragg  to  resume  his  address,  which  he 
did  as  follows  : 

GEN.  BRAGG  :  At  an  early  hour  this  morning,  my  fellow  delegates, 
we  closed  the  work  which  gave  to  the  people  their  choice,  that  great 
tribune  of  the  popular  right,  around  whom  centres  the  affection  of 
the  Democracy,  North,  South,  East  and  West,  Grover  Cleveland, 
not  of  New  York,  but  Grover  Cleveland  of  the  United  States. 

And  now  it  comes  to  us  to  complete  that  ticket  by  placing  upon  it 
a  second  who  shall  be  worthy  of  his  chief,  and  upon  whom  his  man- 
tle may  fall  and  like  confidence  rest  in  the  minds  of  the  people 
upon  the  successor,  if  it  must  be,  as  upon  the  chief,  as  it  will  be. 

Democratic  Wisconsin  presents  to  the  Convention  for  its  support 
the  name  of  John  L.  Mitchell,  of  Milwaukee,  a  member  of  Congress 
from  that  district,  Chairman  of  the  Congressional  Democratic 
Committee  having  charge  of  this  campaign,  a  man  whose  character 
in  private  life  is  above  reproach  ;  who  stands  eminent  in  public  life, 
and  who  as  a  soldier,  has  his  record  written  in  the  records  of  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland.  Chickamauga,  Stone  River  and  Atlanta, 
all  give  the  name  of  our  candidate,  John  L.  Mitchell,  eminent  in 
peace,  brave  in  war,  sound  in  his  Democracy,  trusted  by  all  who 
know  him,  and  worthy  to  be  trusted  by  all  of  those  even  though 
they  do  not  know  him,  but  who  claim  the  name  of  Democrats. 

I  present  his  name  for  your  consideration  in  behalf  of  Demo- 
cratic Wisconsin,  which  expects  to  give,  and  will  give,  its  twelve 
electoral  votes  for  Grover  Cleveland  and  John  L.  Mitchell  if  you  so 
complete  the  ticket. 


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THE  CHAIR  :  The  name  of  Hon.  John  L.  Mitchell,  of  Wisconsin, 
is  presented  to  the  Convention. 

No  response  was  heard  from  Wyoming,  Alaska,  Ari- 
zona or  the  District  of  Columbia. 

When  New  Mexico  was  reached,  Felix  Martinez,  of 
that  delegation,  arose  and  said : 

MR.  MARTINEZ:  The  State  of  New  Mexico  takes  a  back  seat 
now,  but  when  she  shall  have  rolled  up  her  six  electoral  votes  for 
Grover  Cleveland  we  trust  that  we  will  have  a  more  prominent  po- 
sition in  the  National  Democracy.  In  the  name  of  five  of  the  six 
delegates  of  New  Mexico  to  this  Convention,  I  desire  to  second  the 
nomination  of  one  of  the  first  men  and  truest  Democrats  in  all  this 
world,  Isaac  P.  Gray,  of  Indiana. 

Oklahoma,  through  Henry  Haskins,  expressed  her 
choice  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  Oklahoma  seconds  the  nomination  of  that  match- 
less statesman,  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois. 

Indian  Territory  announced  that  it'had  no  candidate. 
At  this  point  W.  F.  Vandiver,  of  Alabama,  said  : 

MR.  VANDIVER  :  Yesterday  we  had  the  storm  clouds,  and  after- 
ward the  calm.  Later  on  we  had  here  what  appeared  to  be  a  Dem- 
ocratic storm  in  a  Democratic  Convention ;  a  few  years  ago  the 
dark  clouds  hovered  o'er  the  North  and  the  South,  and  in  the 
course  of  a  few  years  we  had  the  calm.  The  old  soldiers  of  the 
North  and  the  old  soldiers  of  the  South  have  declared  that  the 
storm  clouds  between  them  have  passed  away  forever,  and,  Mr. 
Chairman,  if  the  issues  of  the  war  are  left  entirely  to  the  old  soldiers 
of  the  South  and  the  old  soldiers  of  the  North,  no  division  or  dis- 
union in  sentiments  or  principles  can  ever  be  recorded  in  this  grand 
Nation  of  ours.  As  I  look  over  this  Alabama  delegation  I  see  those 
who  were  members  of  the  grand  old  Southern  army,  and  I  see  those 
who  were  then  boys  and  are  now  men,  who  are  the  sons  of  noble 
heroes  of  that  cause.  I  place  my  hand  here  on  one  of  the  oldest  gen- 
erals in  the  Southern  army,  and  declare  that  the  vote  of  Alabama 
will  be  cast  for  the  one-armed  soldier  from  the  State  of  Michigan. 

Mr.  J.  H.  King,  of  Alabama,  spoke  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman,  in  behalf  of  the  son  of  a  dead  Confederate  soldier, 
representing  him  in  this  mighty  presence,  as  well  as  my  people,  I 


174  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

take  great  pleasure  in  seconding  the  nomination  of  the  one-armed 
hero  of  Missionary  Ridge.  With  that  grand  and  great  apostle  of 
tariff  reform,  with  that  statesman  in  Washington  associated  with  a 
soldier,  I  think  I  can  see  now  the  Moses  and  the  Aaron  leading  the 
Democratic  children  of  Israel  out  of  the  Egyptian  house  of  bond- 
age, and  I  can,  Mr.  Chairman,  methinks,  hear  the  tramp  of  the 
Republican  host  as  they  go  down  into  the  Red  Sea  of  destruction. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  four  names  have 
been  presented  to  the  Convention  as  candidates  for  nomination  for 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States  :  the  names  of  Isaac  P.  Gray, 
of  Indiana ;  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois  ;  Allen  P.  Morse,  of 
Michigan ;  John  L.  Mitchell,  of  Wisconsin.  The  Secretary  of  the 
Convention  will  now  call  the  roll  of  States  to  receive  the  votes. 

When  the  State  of  Colorado  was  reached,  Hon.  T.  J. 
O'Donnell  said  : 

Colorado  wants  a  candidate  who  can  take  the  party  in  out  of  the 
wet,  and  it  casts  its  eight  votes  for  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  of  Illinois. 

When  Iowa  was  reached,  J.  H.  Shields  said  : 

Iowa  casts  her  twenty-six  votes  for  a  man  who  needs  no  introduc- 
tion to  the  Democracy  of  the  United  States,  nor  any  praise  in  a 
National  Democratic  Convention,  that  Democrat  of  Democrats, 
that  peerless  son  of  Kentucky,  Colonel  Henry  Watterson. 

As  the  last  State  was  called,  and  it  was  seen  that 
Adlai  E.  Stevenson  was  leading  all  the  candidates,  the 
chairman  of  the  Iowa  delegation  arose  and  stated  that  he 
desired  to  change  the  vote  of  Iowa  from  Watterson  to 
Stevenson. 

This  was  the  signal  for  a  general  stampede  to  Steven- 
son, and  chairmen  of  delegations  in  all  parts  of  the  hall 
were  seen  standing  on  chairs  endeavoring  to  catch  the 
eye  of  the  Speaker.  As  delegation  after  delegation  fol- 
lowed the  lead  of  Iowa,  and  it  became  evident  that  Ste- 
venson was  to  be  nominated,  Mr.  Cole,  of  Ohio,  was 
recognized  by  the  Chair,  and  moved  that  the  rules  be 
suspended  and  that  General  Stevenson  be  nominated 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  175 

by   acclamation.     The  motion  was   seconded  by  W.  U. 
Hensel,  of  Pennsylvania. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  having  already  received  more 
than  two-thirds  of  the  votes  of  this  Convention,  it  is  moved  by  Mr. 
Cole,  of  Ohio,  and  seconded  by  Mr.  Hensel,  of  Pennsylvania,  that 
the  rules  be  suspended,  and  that  he  be  declared  nominated  for  the 
office  of  Vice-President  unanimously. 

On  being  put,  the  motion  was  unanimously  adopted, 
and  Gen.  Adlai  E.  Stevenson  was  declared  the  nom- 
inee of  the  Democratic  party  for  the  office  of  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States. 

The  following  is  the  result  of  the  ballot  at  the  close 
of  the  roll  call,  before  any  changes  were  recorded. 


176 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


BALLOT   FOR   NOMINEES    FOR   THE   VICE-PRESIDENCY. 


STATE. 

w 

ill 

o 

-1 

MORSE. 

> 

ai 

•0 

f 

STEVEN- 
SON. 

i  2 

H  0 

-  x 

5 

COCKRAN. 

w 

H 
H 

H 

ij 

=  a 
u 

2 

t/j 
9 

o 
8 

Alabama  

99 

9,9 

Arkansas  

16 

16 

California  

18 

(1 

q 

Colorado  

8 

8 

Connecticut  

19, 

19, 

Delaware  

6 

6 

Florida.                     ... 

g 

2 

Q 

Georgia  

96 

10 

q 

7 

Idaho  

6 

« 

Illinois      

48 

48 

Indiana  

RO 

80 

Iowa  

9,6 

9,6 

Kansas  

9,0 

9f\ 

Kentucky.  . 

9,6 

19, 

19, 

9, 

Louisiana  

16 

16 

Maine  

19 

4 

7 

Maryland  

16 

19 

4 

Massachusetts               

90 

5 

5 

90 

<>8 

9,8 

Minnesota  

18 

18 

Mississippi                     

18 

1 

q 

8 

34 

8 

10 

16 

Montana             .        

fi 

5 

1 

16 

5 

6 

5 

Nevada  

6 

6 

8 

8 

New  Jersey  .                                 . 

^O 

19 

1 

New  York  

79 

79 

9-> 

99, 

North  Dakota                 

6 

6 

Ohio      

46 

4 

38 

4 

Oregon..    .          

8 

8 

64 

64 

Rhode  Island     

8 

8 

South  Carolina  

18 

18 

South  Dakota       ....        

8 

9 

4 

9 

Tennessee  

°4 

1 

14 

8 

1 

Texas                          ... 

«0 

4 

96 

Vermont   

8 

8 

Virginia.              ... 

94 

94 

8 

8 

West  Virginia  

19 

4 

4 

4 

94 

94 

6 

6 

9 

1 

1 

Arizona                

6 

1 

5 

District  of  Columbia 

9 

1 

1 

New  Mexico 

I 

B 

1 

•> 

9 

Utah          

8 

1 

1 

Indian  Territory  

a 

9 

Total  

910 

86 

343 

402 

26 

5 

1 

45 

1 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  177 

RECAPITULATION  OF  VOTE. 

Stevenson 402 

•Gray 343 

Morse 86 

Mitchell 45 

Watterson 26 

Cockran 5 

Boies 1 

Tree ". 1 

Total  vote  cast* 909 

Necessary  for  a  choice , 607 


*Maine  voting  but  n. 


The  following  table  shows  the  result  of  the  ballot,  em- 
bracing all  the  changes  which  were  recognized  by  the 
Chair  before  the  motion  to  make  the  nomination  unani- 
mous was  adopted  : 


12 


178 


OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 


REVISED   BALLOT   FOR    NOMINEES    FOR   THE    VICE-PRESIDENCY. 


STATE. 

M 

-g 

r 

H 

> 

• 
O 

STEVEN- 
SON. 

MORSE. 

1* 

H 

i 

Alabama     

22 
16 
18 
8 
12 
6 
8 
26 
6 
48 
30 
26 
20 
26 
16 
12 
16 
80 
28 
18 
18 
34 
6 
16 
6 
8 
20 
72 
22 
6 
46 
8 
64 
8 
18 
8 
24 
30 
8 
24 

12 
24 
6 
2 
6 
2 
6 
2 
2 
2 

22 

16 
9 

California  

9 

8 

12 

6 

Florida      

2 

6 
26 

Idaho.    ..    .    .   

6 

48 

Indiana  

30 

Iowa    

26 

Kansas  

20 

Kentucky  

26 
16 

7 
4 
30 

Louisiana  

Maine    

4 

12 

Maryland..         

Massachusetts  

28 

18 
8 
34 
6 
16 
5 
8 
1 
72 
22 

Mississippi        .      .                

9 

1 

Missouri  

Montana                             .        

Nevada  

1 

New  Hampshire  

New  1  ersey  .             

19 

New  York  

North  Carolina                     .  . 

North  Dakota     

6 

Ohio                              

46 
8 
64 

Oregon     ..           

Pennsylvania  

Rhode  Island     

8 

18 
4 
24 
30 

South  Dakota       

2 

2 

Tennessee  

Texas  

8 

Virginia     

24 

Washington  ... 

8 
4 

West  Virginia  

4 
24 

'  4 

\Visconsin  .. 

Wyoming  ;  

6 
1 

Alaska        

1 
5 

1 
1 
2 

Arizona   

1 

1 

New  Mexico.             ....         

5 

Oklahoma  

Utah  

1 
2 

1 

..     .. 

Indian  Territory  

Total.. 

910 

185 

652 

62 

10 

NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  179 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  please  come  to 
order.  There  is  a  number  of  resolutions  which  have  been  sent  to 
the  desk  to  be  presented  to  you  for  your  consideration.  The  Clerk 
will  read  them. 

Chief  Reading  Clerk  Bell  then  read  the  following 
resolution,  offered  by  Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  of  QJiio  : 

Resolved,  That  the  National  Committee  are  hereby  empowered 
and  directed  to  fix  the  time  and  place  for  holding  the  next  National 
Convention,  and  that  the  basis  of  representation  therein  be  the 
same  as  fixed  for  this  Convention. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted. 
Norman  E.  Mack,  of  New  York,  offered  the  following 
resolution   which  was  read  by  the  clerk  : 

Resolved,  That  the  name  of  Hon.  W.  L.  Wilson,  permanent  Chair- 
man of  this  Convention,  be  added  to  the  committee  appointed  by 
the  several  States  to  notify  the  nominees  of  this  Convention  of  their 
selection  as  candidates  for  the  office  of  President  and  Vice-President 
of  the  United  States. 

Gen.  Patrick  Collins,  of  Massachusetts,  put  the  ques- 
tion as  follows  : 

On  account  of  the  modesty  of  the  permanent  Chairman  of  this 
Convention,  I  have  been  requested  to  put  this  question.  The 
gentlemen  in  favor  of  this  resolution  will  say  aye. 

The  resolution  was  thereupon  unanimously  adopted. 

The  following  resolution,  presented  by  Hon.  Samuel 

R.  Honey,  of  Rhode  Island,  was  then  read  by  the  Clerk: 

Resolved,  That  the  National  'Committee  is  authorized  and  em- 
powered in  its  discretion  to  select  as  its  Chairman  and  also  as  the 
Chairman  of  its  Executive  Committee  persons  who  are  not  mem- 
bers of  the  said  National  Committee. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted. 
Permanent  Chairman  Wilson  then  took  the  chair  and 
recognized  General  Collins,  of  Massachusetts,  who  said : 

ADDRESS    OF    GENERAL~COLLINS. 

Gentlemen  of  the  Convention  :  I  propose  to  address  myself  to 
the  common  sense,  good  judgment  and  experience  of  the  900  men 
selected  by  the  Democratic  party  as  delegates  to  this  Convention. 


180  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

Twelve  years  ago  I  sent  to  the  Chair  a  resolution  instructing  the 
National  Committee  to  provide  accommodation  in  the  next  Conven- 
tion for  the  delegates,  the  alternates,  the  National  Committee,  the 
members  of  the  press  and  none  others.  The  time  was  not  ripe  for 
the  adoption  of  that;  and  without  disparagement  to  our  National 
Committee,  I  feel  free  to  say,  in  the  presence  of  the  small  fraction 
of  the  great  American  public  outside  of  ourselves  as  delegates,  that  a 
mistake  has  been  made,  and  that  the  time  has  now  come  when  a 
Democratic  Convention  should  be  a  deliberative  body,  not  gov- 
erned by  outside  influences.  If  we  could  be  on  exhibition  in  the 
view  of  the  65,000,000  of  our  people,  and  of  the  7,000,000  of 
Democrats  who  will  vote  the  Democratic  ticket,  well  and  good  ; 
but  what  is  the  use?  What  is  the  sense  in  having  15,000  persons  who 
can  hardly  see,  and  who  can  not  hear,  prolong  the  proceedings  of  a 
Democratic  Convention  and  prevent  it  from  being  deliberative  ? 
It  is  not  the  discomforts,  it  is  not  the  inconveniences,  but  it  is  the 
danger  of  wrecking  a  Convention  that  we  are  face  to  face  with  to  day  j 
and  I  feel  confident  that  we  have  reached  the  climax  of  absurdity, 
and  therefore,  I  ask  you,  fellow  delegates  to  pass  the  following 
resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  National  Democratic  Committee  be  instructed 
to  provide  in  the  next  Convention,  accommodations  for  the  dele- 
gates, the  alternates,  the  members  of  the  press,  the  National  Com- 
mittee and  none  others. 

I  offer  that  resolution  to  the  end  that  the  people  who  are  here  by 
their  proxies  may  have  that  consideration  paid  to  their  interests 
which  can  only  be  secured  in  a  really  deliberative  body ;  and  upon 
that  resolution  I  call  for  the  roll  of  the  States. 

At  this  point,  the  ropes  which  held  one  of  the  electric 
lights  suspended,  became  loosened  or  broken,  and  the 
rapid  descent  of  the  light  caused  great  confusion.  It 
seemed  for  a  time  that  some  of  the  delegates  in  the 
New  York  delegation  seated  directly  beneath  it,  were 
in  imminent  and  deadly  peril.  Col.  Bright,  the  Ser- 
geant-at-arms,  and  the  police,  soon  secured  the  light, 
removed  all  cause  for  apprehension,  and  restored  order. 

Mr.  W.  U.  Hensel,  of  Pennsylvania,  then  said  : 

MR.  HENSEL  :  Mr.  Chairman,  I  think  it  must  be  apparent  to  all 
the  delegates  here,  that  even  a  roll-call  of  the  States  cannot  now  b& 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  CONVENTION.  181 

taken  with  that  deliberation  necessary  to  the  proper  proceedings  of 
this  Convention.  I  therefore  move  you  that  the  resolution  of  Gen- 
eral Collins  be  referred  to  the  next  National  Democratic  Committee, 
with  the  affirmative  recommendation  of  this  Convention  and  with 
full  power  to  act. 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  is  moved  that  the  resolution  of  General  Collins 
be  referred  to  the  next  National  Committee  with  an  affirmative 
recommendation  and  with  the  power  to  act. 

This  motion  was  adopted. 

The  following  resolutions  were  also  offered  by  Hon. 
W.  B.  Chipley,  of  Florida. 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  are  due  and  arc 
hereby  tendered  Hon.  Nicholas  M.  Bell  and  other  Secretaries  of 
the  Convention,  and 

Resolved,  That  Hon.  Nicholas  M.  Bell  be  added  to  the  Notifica- 
tion Committee  as  its  Secretary. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

By  Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  of  Ohio  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Convention  are  hereby  tendered 
to  the  Chicago  Committee  and  the  citizens  of  Chicago  for  their 
courtesies  to  this  Convention. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

By  Hon.  Henry  Watterson,  of  Kentucky  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Official  Stenographer  be  directed  to  prepare 
the  proceedings  of  this  Convention,  to  be  printed  in  proper  form, 
and  that  the  National  Committee  cause  a  suitable  number  of  copies 
to  be  distributed  among  the  delegates  to  this  Convention,  and  such 
others  as  may  be  entitled  to  receive  them. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

MR.  WATTERSON  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Convention,  it  is  moved  and 
seconded  that  the  thanks  of  this  body  be  tendered  to  the  President 
and  other  officers  of  this  Convention  for  their  services. 

This  resolution  was  adopted. 

HON.  J.  RUSSELL,  of  Missouri :  I  move  the  Convention  do  now 
adjourn  sine  die. 


182  OFFICIAL  PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE 

MR.  WATTERSON  :  The  gentleman  from  Missouri  moves  that 
this  Convention  do  now  adjourn  sine  die. 

In  announcing  the  vote,  Chairman  Wilson  said  : 

The  Chair,  thanking  the  Convention  for  its  kindness  to  himself, 
and  asking  its  indulgence  for  any  lack  of  capacity  to  perform  the 
duties  of  his  office,  hereby  declares  the  Convention  adjourned 
sine  die. 

The  Convention  was  thereupon  adjourned  sine  die  at 
5:18  o'clock  p.  M. 


APPENDIX. 


ORGANIZATION 


OF   THE 


NATIONAL  DEMOCRATIC  COMMITTEE 


OF  1892. 


PALMER  HOUSE,  CHICAGO,  June  23,  1892, 

5  o'clock  P.  M. 

The  National  Committee  of  1892  met  for  the  purpose 
of  temporary  organization,  at  the  Palmer  House,  Grand 
Parlor,  at  5  o'clock  p.  M. 

The  Committee  was  called  to  order  by  Hon.  Calvin 
S.  Brice,  as  follows  : 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  has  been  customary  for  the  old  members  of  the 
National  Committee  to  meet  for  the  purpose  of  finishing  any  busi- 
ness that  they  might  have ;  and  then  that  the  roll  should  be  called, 
and  then  that  the  old  members  should  retire,  and  the  new  Com- 
mittee would  then  organize.  If  there  be  no  objection,  in  accord- 
ance with  that  custom,  I  will  call  the  old  Committee  to  order,  and 
will  entertain  any  motions  which  may  be  offered. 


186  APPENDIX. 

The  following  resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  be  and  they  are  cor- 
dially extended  to  Hon.  S.  P.  Sheerin,  Secretary ;  to  Col.  Richard 
J.  Bright,  Sergeant- at- Arms  ;  to  C.  J.  Canda,  Esq.,  Treasurer  ;  to 
F.  E.  Canda,  Esq.,  Assistant  Treasurer,  and  to  Col.  Edward  B. 
Dickinson,  Assistant  Secretary  and  Official  Stenographer,  for  the 
care,  tact  and  fidelity  with  which  they  have  performed  the  arduous, 
delicate  and  often  vexatious  duties  of  their  respective  positions,  in 
preparing  for  the  holding  of  the  Convention  just  closed. 

THE  CHAIR  :  If  there  be  no  objection,  I  will  hold  that  this  is  a 
separable  resolution,  in  order  that  each  of  these  officers  may  have  a 
copy  if  he  desires,  including  his  own  name. 

SENATOR  M.  W.  RANSOM,  of  North  Carolina :  As  the  oldest 
member  in  service  of  this  Committee,  I  claim  the  privilege  and  the 
pleasure  of  presenting  this  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  are  due  and  are 
hereby  tendered  to  Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee, for  the  able,  faithful  and  devoted  manner  in  which  he  has 
discharged  all  the  duties  belonging  to  his  position ;  and  that  he  de- 
serves the  gratitude  of  the  Democratic  party  of  the  country  for  his 
great  services  to  its  cause. 

The  question  being  put  by  Senator  Ransom,  the  res- 
olution was  unanimously  adopted. 

On  motion  of  Senator  Gorman,  of  Maryland,  the  fol- 
lowing resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  are  due  to  and  are 
hereby  tendered  the  citizens  of  Chicago,  to  the  Finance,  Building 
and  Reception  Committees  for  their  hospitality. 

THE  CHAIR  :  If  there  is  no  other  business,  a  motion  to  adjourn 
will  be  in  order. 

MR.  TARPEY,  of  California  :  I  move  that  the  Committee  of  1888 
adjourn  sine  die. 

This  motion  was  adopted,  and  the  Committee  of  1888 
adjourned  sine  die. 


APPENDIX.  187 

The  Committee  of  1892  was  then  called  to  order  by 
the  Secretary,  who  called  the  roll,  by  which  it  appeared 
that  the  following  States  were  represented  : 

Alabama Henry  D.  Clayton Eufaula. 

Arkansas . .  .U.  M.  Rose Little  Rock. 

California M.  F.  Tarpey Alameda. 

Colorado Charles  S.  Thomas Denver. 

Connecticut Carlos  French Seymour. 

Delaware Lewis  C.  Vandegrift Wilmington. 

Florida Samuel  Pasco Monrtcello. 

Georgia Clark  Howell,  Jr Atlanta. 

Idaho Frank  W.  Beane Blackfoot. 

Illinois Ben  T.  Cable Rock  Island. 

Indiana S.  P.  Sheerin Logansport. 

Iowa J.  J.  Richardson Davenport. 

Kansas Charles  W.  Blair Leavenworth. 

Kentucky Thomas  H.  Shenley Louisville. 

Louisiana James  Jeffries Rapides. 

Maine Arthur  Sewall   Bath. 

Maryland Arthur  P.  Gorman Laurel. 

Massachusetts Josiah  Quincy Boston. 

Michigan Daniel  J.  Campau Detroit. 

Minnesota Michael  Doran St.  Paul. 

Mississippi Charles  D.  Howry Oxford. 

Missouri John  G.  Prather St.  Louis. 

Montana A.  J.  Davidson Helena. 

Nebraska Tobias  Castor Lincoln. 

Nevada R.  P.  Keating.. Virginia  City. 

New  Hampshire A.  W.  Sulloway Franklin. 

New  Jersey. Miles  Ross New  Brunswick. 

New  York William  F.  Sheehan Buffalo. 

North  Carolina M.  W.  Ransom Weldon. 

North  Dakota William  C.  Leistikow Grafton. 

Ohio Calvin  S.  Brice Lima. 

Oregon E.  D.  McKee Portland. 

Pennsylvania William  F.  Harrity  Philadelphia. 

Rhode  Island Samuel  R.  Honey Newport. 

South  Carolina M.  F.  Donoldson Greenville. 

South  Dakota (not  reported) 

Tennessee Holmes  Cummings Memphis. 

Texas O.  T.  Holt Houston. 

Vermont Bradley  B.  Smalley Burlington. 

Virginia Basil  B.  Gordon Sandy. 

Washington Hugh  C.  Wallace Tacoma. 

West  Virginia (not  reported) 

Wisconsin E.  C.  Wall.....' Milwaukee. 

Wyoming W.  L.  Kuykendall .    ..Saratoga. 


188  APPENDIX. 

Alaska A .  K.  Delaney Juneau. 

Arizona Charles  M.  Shannon Clifton. 

Indian  Territory E.  N.  Allen .  .McAllister. 

District  of  Columbia James  L.  Norris Washington. 

New  Mexico H.  B.  Ferguson 

Oklahoma T.  M.  Richardson Oklahoma  City. 

Utah Samuel  A.  Merritt Salt  Lake  City. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  C.  W.  Blair,  of  Kansas,  Hon.  Calvin 
S.  Brice  was  elected  temporary  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee ;  Hon.  S.  P.  Sheerin  was  elected  temporary 
Secretary ;  Charles  J.  Canda  was  elected  temporary 
Treasurer,  and  Edward  B.  Dickinson,  Official  Stenog- 
rapher. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Tarpey,  the  Committee  adjourned 
to  meet  on  such  day  as  should  be  determined  far  the 
meeting  of  the  Notification  Committee,  due  notice 
whereof  will  be  given  by  the  Secretary  of  this  Com- 
mittee. 


APPENDIX. 


189 


FIFTH  AVENUE  HOTEL,  NEW  YORK  CITY, 

July  21,  1892. 


The  meeting  was  called  to  order  at  12  o'clock,  M., 
pursuant  to  call,  the  Chairman,  Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice, 
of  Ohio,  presiding,  and  the  Secretary,  Hon.  S.  P.  Shee- 
rin,  of  Indiana,  recording. 

THE  CHAIR  :  All  gentlemen  who  are  not  members  of  the  National 
Committee,  if  there  are  any  such  present,  will  please  retire.  The 
Sergeant-at-Arms  will  close  the  door.  The  Committee  is  now  in 
session.  The  Secretary  will  call  the  roll. 

The  roll  of  the  Committee  was  called  by  the  Secre- 
tary, on  which  it  appeared  the  following  States  were 
represented,  either  by  the  member  in  person  or  by 
proxy  : 


Alabama — R.    N.    Rhodes    (proxy    for 

Henry  D.  Clayton,  Jr. ) 
Arkansas — U.  M.  Rose. 
California — M.  F.  Tarpey. 
Colorado — C.  S.  Thomas. 
Connecticut — Carlos  French. 
Delaware — Lewis  C.  Vandegrift. 
Florida — Samuel  Pasco. 
Georgia — Clark  Howell,  Jr. 
Idaho — S.  P.  Sheerin  (proxy  for  Frank 

W.  Beane). 

///inois—Ben.  T.  Cable. 
Indiana — S.  P.  Sheeiin. 
Iowa — J.  J.  Richardson. 
Kansas — Charles  W.  Blair. 


Kentucky — Thomas  H.  Sherley. 
Louisiana — James  Jeffries. 
Maine — Arthur  Sewall. 
Maryland — Arthur  P.  Gorman . 
Massachusetts — Josiah  Quincy. 
Michigan — Justin    R.    Whiting    (proxy 

for  Daniel  J.  Campau). 
Minnesota — Michael  Doran. 
Mississippi — Charles  D.  Howry. 
Missouri — John  G.  Prather. 
Montana —  A.  P.  Gorman  (proxy  for  A. 

J.  Davidson). 
Nebraska — Tobias  Castor. 
Nevada — Horatio   C.  King   (proxy   for 

R.  P.  Keating). 


190 


APPENDIX. 


New  Hampshire — A.  W.  Sulloway. 
New   Jersey — M.    F.    Ross   (proxy   for 

Miles  Ross). 

New  York — William  F.  Sheehan. 
North  Carolina — M.  W.  Ransom. 
North  Dakota — (not  represented). 
Ohio — Calvin  S.  Brice. 
Oregon — Francis  Lynde  Stetson  (proxy 

for  E.  D.  McKee). 
Pennsylvania — William  F.  Harrity. 
Rhode  Island — Samuel  R.  Honey. 
South  Carolina — M.  F.  Donaldson. 
South  Dakota — 
Tennessee — (not  represented). 
Texas — William  C.  Whitney  (proxy  for 

O.  T.  Holt). 


Vermont — Bradley  B.  Smalley. 
Virginia — Basil  D.  Gordon. 
Washington—  Hugh  C.  Wallace. 
West  Virginia — John  Sheridan. 
Wisconsin— &.  C.  Wall. 
Wyoming — Robert    H.     Homer    (proxy 

for  W.  L.  Kuykendall). 
Alaska — (not  represented). 
Arizona — A.    P.    Gorman     (proxy    for 

Charles  M.  Shannon). 
District  of  Columbia — James  L.  Norris. 
New  Mexico — H.  B.  Ferguson. 
Indian  Territory — E.  N.  Allen. 
Utah — JohnT.  Caine  (proxy  for  Samuel 

A.  Merritt). 


At  the  conclusion  of  the  calling  of  the  roll,  Mr.  Owen 
arose  and  stated  that  he  challenged  the  right  of  Mr. 
Allen  to  represent  Indian  Territory. 


THE  CHAIR  :     Let  that  be  passed.     Is  there  a  contest? 

THE  SECRETARY  :     There  is  a  contest  in  Indian  Territory, 
members  are  present. 


Both 


THE  CHAIR  :  What  will  be  the  pleasure  of  the  Committee  ?  Will 
it  be  that  the  two  members  remain  in  the  room  until  the  matter  is 
taken  up,  and  that  it  be  temporarily  passed  now  ?  If  that  be  the 
pleasure  of  the  Committee  we  will  proceed  with  the  regular  business. 

At  this  point  Mr.  Henry  E.  Davis  stated  that  he  de- 
sired to  challenge  the  right  of  Mr.  Norris  to  represent 
the  District  of  Columbia. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Let  the  same  'action  be  taken  as  to  that  also,  if 
there  is  no  objection. 

SENATOR  A.  P.  GORMAN,  of  Maryland  :  I  would  suggest  that  the 
matter  be  referred  to  a  committee  of  three. 

THE  CHAIR  :     Do  you  put  that  in  the  form  of  a  motion  ? 

MR.  GORMAN:  Yes,  sir.  I  move  that  the  contested  cases  be 
referred  to  a  committee  of  three,  who  will  take  the  papers  and 
report  to  this  Committee. 


APPENDIX.  191 

This  motion  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

THE  CHAIR  :  That  covers  both  cases,  as  I  understand  it.  How 
shall  that  committee  be  appointed  ? 

MR.  GORMAN  :     By  the  Chairman. 

THE  CHAIR  :  What  will  be  the  pleasure  of  the  Committee  as  to 
the  members  remaining  present  during  this  meeting? 

A  MEMBER  :  I  move  that  the  gentlemen  be  allowed  to  remain 
until  the  matter  is  finally  determined. 

This  motion  being-  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen  of  the  Committee  : — The  next  business 
in  order  will  be  the  permanent  organization  of  this  Committee. 
Before  that  takes  place,  I  have  a  personal  explanation  or  a  personal 
statement  to  make  to  the  members  of  this  Committee.  I  under- 
stand that  we  are  here  without  reporters,  in  a  confidential  way,  in 
conference  as  to  the  best  interests  of  this  Committee  and  the  Dem- 
ocratic party. 

When  the  Committee  honored  me  with  an  election  as  Chairman 
pro  tern,  at  Chicago,  I  made  my  acknowledgments  to  the  Committee 
with  much  less  warmth  of  expression  than  my  feelings  really 
prompted,  because  only  those  who  have  participated  in  the  struggle 
and  in  the  associations  formed  during  a  national  campaign  are 
conscious  how  deep  the  ties  grow  to  be,  and  how  much  affected  any 
one  of  a  sensitive  temperament  is  by  any  such  evidence  of  confidence 
and  regard.  I  stated  then  to  the  Committee  that  my  engagements, 
formed  some  months  previous  to  the  National  Convention,  pre- 
cluded the  possibility  of  my  occupying  the  Chairmanship  of  the 
Committee  through  this  national  campaign,  and  that  I  would  only 
hold  the  place  of  Chairman  until  the  permanent  organization  of 
this  Committee,  and  should  not  be  a  candidate  for  re-election.  To 
that  conclusion*  then  announced  I  still  adhere,  and.  for  the  reasons 
which  I  then  gave. 

Since  the  Committee  adjourned,  a  number  of  personal  friends  on 
the  Committee,  loath  to  sever  the  relations  which  existed  between 


192  APPENDIX. 

us,  have  been  endeavoring  to  keep  our  organization  intact  by  sug- 
gesting that  I  be  a  candidate  for  the  office  of  Chairman  of  the 
National  Committee,  but  not  for  the  Chairmanship  of  the  Campaign 
Committee.  In  other  words,  they  desired  to  honor  me  with  the 
rank  and  title  of  that  place  without  putting  on  me  the  burden  and 
responsibility  of  the  campaign,  and  they  have  been  kind  enough 
to  assure  me  that  their  feeling  was  shared  in  by  a  very  large  number 
of — perhaps  all — the  Committee. 

It  is  impossible  for  me  to  consent  to  put  myself  in  such  a  position. 
I  have  considered  it  fully  and  carefully.  I  have  considered  fully, 
because  such  evidence  of  confidence  in  me  and  of  regard  for  me  on 
the  part  of  such  gentlemen  as  makeup  this  Committee,  made  it  proper 
that  I  should  do  so.  I  understand  that  the  suggestion  is  made,  not  as 
antagonistic  to  any  other  person  or  adverse  to  any  other  action  that 
might  be  taken,  but  simply  and  entirely  a  suggestion  made  by  indi- 
vidual members  of  the  Committee,  because  they  wanted  the  friendly 
relations  to  continue  which  have  existed  for  some  years  between  us. 
But  my  own  personal  position  is  such  with  regard  to  my  private 
business  affairs  as  to  make  it  imperative  for  me  to  shape  everything 
so  that  I  can  have  a  reasonable  amount  of  freedom  for  the  next 
three  or  four  months.  I  have  been  engaged  at  Washington  for  the 
past  seven  months,  and  I  really  require  the  next  few  months  to  put 
my  own  house  in  order. 

In  the  campaign  of  1888  I  believe  that  I  merited  the  confidence 
of  those  who  were  associated  with  me  by  the  attention  which  I  then 
gave  to  the  business  with  which  I  was  charged.  Every  thought, 
every  interest,  every  moment  of  time,  every  particle  of  nerve  force 
and  of  brain  power  that  was  in  me,  I  gave  to  the  campaign  of  1888. 
It  would  not  be  possible  for  me  to  repeat  it.  I  did  my  best,  and  if 
I  should  attempt  to  do  anything  of  that  kind  again,  I  would  fall 
below  the  standard  which  I  then  established  for  myself.  It  is  possi- 
ble for  another  to  make  such  a  fight. 

I  am  perfectly  willing  to  leave  my  record  where  I  made  it — not 
with  the  general  public  where  failure  or  success  is  the  only  standard 
of  recognition  and  appreciation,  because  no  man  has  a  right  to 
undertake  a  contest  of  any  sort  and  fail — but  with  the  Committee 
itself.  I  took  charge  of  the  campaign  and  I  failed.  So  far  as  the 
general  body  of  the  Democracy  and  the  public  are  concerned,  I 
have  no  claim  to  their  confidence  or  regard.  I  am  only  entitled  to 


APPENDIX.  193 

it  from  those  who  were  associated  with  me  in  the  contest.  I  claim 
nothing  from  the  outside  public  who  had  a  right  to  look  for  success 
and  nothing  else — who  can  claim  that  we  had  no  business  to  under- 
take a  contest  unless  we  could  be  successful.  I  am  speaking  freely 
about  my  own  personal  views,  so  that  you  may  see  how  I  regard  the 
situation. 

The  Chairmanship  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee  is  as 
high  an  honor,  in  my  mind,  as  lies  within  the  power  of  the  party  to 
confer  upon  anyone.  It  is  equal  to  any  other  of  the  great  distinc- 
tions in  the  party.  To  have  had  that  honor,  and  to  have  had  it  even 
with  imperfect  success' is  something  which  I  shall  always  treasure 
along  with  the  associations  then  formed,  the  confidences  established 
and  the  regards  and  friendships  then  secured. 

I  do  not  think  it  would  be  right  for  you,  if  in  a  moment  of  senti- 
ment you  wished  to,  to  put  me  back  as  Chairman  of  the  National 
Democratic  Committee,  and  I  do  not  think  it  would  be  right  for  me 
to  accept  it. 

I  am  of  the  opinion  that  there  is  in  the  minds  of  all  of  us  the 
name  of  a  man  who  will  fill  this  same  place  with  great  ability,  with 
great  distinction,  and  in  the  end,  take  from  me  all  the  love  and 
sentiment  which  I  am  rejoicing  in  now. 

I  am  trying  to  bring  before  you  the  feeling  which  I  have  enter- 
tained since  the  adjournment  of  the  Convention,  in  talking  with  A, 
B  and  C,  who  have  kindly  said,  "  Let  us  make  you  Chairman  again  ; 
let  us  reward  you  for  past  services."  Even  the  feeling  which  you 
have  for  me,  and  it  is  the  expression  of  almost  every  member  of 
this  Committee,  together  with  that  of  many  leading  Democrats  out- 
side of  the  Committee,  I  think  it  would  be  improper  for  me,  in  jus- 
tice to  myself,  to  accept  it,  and,  except  for  the  sentiment,  improper 
for  you  to  offer  it  to  me. 

Gentlemen,  I  have  failed  to  express  myself  clearly  if  I  have  been 
unsuccessful  in  impressing  upon  you  how  deeply  I  feel  upon  this 
subject,  and  how  much  I  appreciate  the  kindness  with  which  I  have 
been  treated  by  all  the  members  of  this  Committee.  We  will  now 
proceed  with  the  permanent  organization. 

MR.  TARPEY,  of  California :  In  consideration  of  what  has  been 
said  by  the  Chairman,  I  deem  it  proper  at  this  time,  gentlemen,  to 

13 


194  APPENDIX. 

offer  a  resolution,  and  I  do  so  feeling  that  it  would  be  adopted  by 
every  member  of  this  Committee  without  a  single  exception. 

The  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  Tarpey  was  as  follows  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  are  hereby  tendered 
to  the  Hon.  Calvin  S.  Brice  for  the  able,  dignified  and  courteous 
manner  in  which  he,  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee,  has  presided 
over  its  deliberations  and  directed  its  management ;  and  we  deeply 
regret  that  the  pressure  of  personal  and  business  affairs  is  such  that 
he  cannot  accept  the  Chairmanship  of  this  Committee. 

MR.  TARPEY  :     I  move  the  adoption  of  the  foregoing  resolution. 
MR.  WHITNEY,  of  New  York  :     I  second  the  motion. 

MR.  GORMAN  :  Mr.  Chairman,  before  the  resolutions  are  adopted, 
I  would  like  to  say  a  few  words.  Of  course,  I  take  pleasure  in 
seconding  this  resolution,  but  I  cannot  permit  the  opportunity  to 
pass  without  saying,  from  my  own  connection  with  this  Committee 
and  some  intimate  relations  with  it  during  the  campaign,  watching 
closely  as  I  did  every  movement  and  every  action  of  those  who 
conducted  the  campaign  of  1888,  that  the  Democratic  party  is 
under  deep  and  lasting  obligations  to  you. 

I  think  if  the  records  were  searched,  the  fact  would  be  ascertained 
that  of  all  the  Chairmen  we  have  had — at  least  since  the  war  and 
during  my  time,  no  man  ever  occupied  the  position  of  Chairman  of 
the  Campaign  Committee  who  discharged  his  duties  more  faithfully 
or  intelligently  than  you  did  ;  that  no  man  in  the  party,  whether  in 
office  or  out  of  it,  ever  assumed  such  responsibilities  or  contributed 
so  much  to  the  success  of  Democratic  principles,  and  all  without 
the  slightest  personal  interests  in  the  result  of  the  contest. 

While  the  unthinking  and  the  hypercritical  among  the  press  and 
others  may  condemn  and  criticise  you  for  the  loss  of  that  campaign, 
no  greater  injustice  was  ever  done  a  commanding  officer.  That  cam- 
paign was  fought  as  intelligently,  as  energetically,  as  any  contest 
that  we  ever  had.  There  was  not  a  man  in  the  party  from  the  can- 
didates down  who  did  not  believe  that  our  weakness  was  in  the 
centres  of  population  and  in  the  manufacturing  centres,  and  it  was 
the  combined  judgment  of  every  man  who  looked  at  and  had  an 
interest  in  the  contest  that  there  the  fight  should  be  made.  There, 
Mr.  Chairman,  you  made  it,  and  the  results  show  that  you  did 


APPENDIX.  185 

because   we  weakened  the  Republicans   in  their   own   strongholds 
while  we  lost  in  the  country  districts. 

Whatever  fault  of  judgment  it  was,  it  was  not  yours.  You  came 
to  occupy  the  position  by  the  request  of  the  candidates  ;  you  came 
as  one  not  skilled  in  political  management,  but  you  had  the  good 
sense  to  adopt  the  judgment  of  those  who  surrounded  you  and  their 
judgment  and  their  determination  of  the  lines  of  battle  you  adopted. 

I  want  to  say  to  this  Committee  to-day,  that  no  mere  resolutions 
can  express  my  feelings.  You  deserve  great  gratitude  for  your 
action,  and  no  man  regrets  more  than  I  do  that  your  business  and 
personal  affairs  make  it  impossible  for  you  to  serve  your  party  again 
in  that  capacity. 

In  1884  a  like  case  presented  itself  to  the  National  Democratic 
Committee.  Mr.  Barnum,  who  was  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee, 
had  lost  the  contest  of  1880.  The  same  criticisms  were  made,  but 
we  said,  "We  know  you  are  loyal;  we  know  your  work  and  we  will 
place  you  again  at  the  head  of  the  Committee."  We  did  place  him 
at  the  head  of  the  Committee,  and  he  won  the  contest  in  1884. 
Therefore,  sir,  in  relinquishing  your  services,  I  do  not  do  it  because 
of  the  criticisms  which  have  been  made.  Your  experience  in  the 
past  four  years  better  fits  you  for  such  a  contest,  and  I  only  reluc- 
tantly consent  to  your  withdrawal  because  of  your  own  personal 
relations. 

SENATOR  M.  W.  RANSOM,  of  North  Carolina  :  I  hope  the  Com- 
mittee will  permit  me  to  unite  my  expressions  with  those  of  the 
Senator  from  Maryland,  so  well  said.  I  should  do  injustice  to  my 
judgment  and  heart  hope  if  I  permitted  this  occasion  to  pass  with- 
out bearing  my  testimony  to  the  unsurpassed  and  unequaled  devo- 
tion with  which  you  have  met  every  duty  as  the  Chairman  of  this 
Committee. 

It  is  a  matter  of  regret  to  me,  and  I  think  it  is  an  occasion  of  loss 
to  the  country,  that  the  present  generation  and  the  young  men  who 
will  come  soon  afterwards  shall  not  have  knowledge  of  your  action 
in  the  position  which  you  have  filled.  I  do  not  know  myself  what 
others  think,  but  a  signal  and  conspicuous  instance  of  great  public 
virtue  is  worth  more  to  mankind  than  any  object  you  can  mention. 
No  boy  ever  read  the  story  of  Codes  at  the  Roman  bridge  without 
being  a  nobler  boy  ;  no  American  citizen  or  European  ever  read  of 


196  APPENDIX. 

General  Washington  refusing  to  touch  a  dollar  of  public  money 
when  he  offered  his  unrivaled  services  to  his  country  without  feeling 
new  courage  and  a  new  impulse  to  honorable  action,  and,  to  me, 
living  in  an  eminently  practical  time,  when  everything  is  utilita- 
rianism, when  men  do  not  look  to  sentiment  but  to  material  results 
and  effects,  it  is  the  very  highest  moral  gratification  to  know  that  in 
this  country  of  ours,  and  in  this  party  of  ours,  a  man  has  been 
found  who  illustrated  the  public  services  to  his  party  by  acts  of 
unsurpassed  devotion. 

If  the  history  of  your  administration  should  be  published  it  would 
read  like  a  romance,  and  would  show  a  generosity  on  your  part 
without  a  parallel  in  the  history  of  this  or  any  other  country. 

At  the  same  time,  I  must  be  permitted  to  say  that  your  sense  of 
justice  to  every  member  of  this  Committee,  your  uniform  and  in- 
variable courtesies,  your  regard  for  our  sensibilities  and  our  conven- 
iences tie  the  heart  and  soul  of  every  man  to  you.  I  wish  the 
history  of  your  administration  could  be  published,  as  an  example  to 
all  your  successors,  in  order  that  they  might  see  how  disinterested,. 
how  noble,  and  how  modest  one  Democrat  has  been  in  the  dis- 
charge of  a  great  duty  which  he  was  invited  to  take  upon  his  hands. 

I  regret  with  pain  and  with  sorrow  that  you  have  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  you  have.  It  is  only  another  instance  of  that  virtue 
which  has  brought  you  to  the  position  you  now  hold,  and  which  I 
hope  will  protect  and  guide  our  party  and  our  people  to  permanent 
victory  in  this  country.  Your  presence  here  prevents  me  from  say- 
ing more  regarding  the  regrets  of  this  Committee  in  accepting  your 
resignation.  Speaking  for  myself,  and  what  I  believe  to  be  the  gen- 
eral sentiment  of  the  Committee,  I  may  say  that  almost  every  man 
here  is  filled  with  the  same  regret  and  pain  that  I  feel.  I  thank  you 
personally  for  your  great  courtesy  and  consideration  to  me  and  my 
friends  ever  since  you  have  been  Chairman,  and  I  thank  the  gentle- 
men for  having  heard  me  so  patiently. 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  Mr.  Chairman,  having  personally  been  inti- 
mately associated  with  both  the  campaigns  of  1884  and  1888,  partly 
from  personal  friendships  which  I  value  very  highly,  and  partly 
from  a  feeling  of  devotion  to  the  party,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  ta 
hear  these  words  of  appreciation  which  have  been  uttered  with  re- 
gard to  the  Chairmanship  of  the  campaign  of  1888.  The  Chairman. 


APPENDIX.  197 

at  that  time,  urged  almost  by  the  personal  friendship  of  a  few  of  us, 
undertook  something  with  regard  to  which  he  distrusted  himself, 
and,  having  undertaken  it  under  circumstances  which  were  very 
difficult  and  adverse,  with  issues  which  were  new  and  untried,  and 
with  a  party  in  a  state  of  alarm,  those  of  us  who  were  near  him 
know  that  by  no  possible  lack  of  labor  or  time  and  by  no  personal 
restraint  upon  himself,  but  by  every  possible  sacrifice,  he  gave 
everything  that  he  had  to  the  success  of  that  campaign.  I  do  not 
agree  with  the  spirit  which  indicates  that  his  work  has  not  been 
appreciated.  The  personal  friendships  then  formed,  and  afterwards 
strengthened,  he  now  cherishes,  for  he  has  told  me  that  they  are  a 
treasure  to  him,  and  will  be  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  We  who  are  as- 
sociated with  him  will  likewise  cherish  them  forever. 

The  Democratic  party,  outside  of  a  few  newspaper  criticisms, 
never  failed  to  appreciate  the  wonderful  energy  which  he  put  into 
the  campaign,  and  the  wonderful  success  with  which  he,  as  an  indi- 
vidual, conducted  it.  I  will  say  that  from  my  personal  knowledge, 
because  for  the  last  six  weeks  of  the  campaign  I  was  under  the 
orders  of  the  Chairman,  and  passed  most  of  my  time  here  in  this 
city,  if  it  had  not  been  his  determination  for  the  last  nine  months 
that  he  would  not,  under  all  the  circumstances,  undertake  this  work 
again,  so  far  as  I  am  personally  concerned  nobody  would  have 
taken  preference  in  my  mind  to  his  candidacy  for  this  place.  I 
have  never,  in  public  or  in  private,  failed  to  do  justice,  so  far  as  I 
could,  to  the  great  services  which  Senator  Brice  contributed  to  the 
Democratic  party  in  1888. 

Gentlemen,  turning  to  the  future,  it  must  be  that  we  wish  to 
organize  in  a  w«y  which  will  bring  to  the  support  of  the  Democratic 
party  the  combined  force  of  the  intelligence,  the  sagacity  and  brains 
of  all. 

Personal  considerations  with  us  allow  of  no  possible  weight  in  the 
presence  of  the  triumph  of  principles  in  which  we  believe,  and  I 
know  that  there  is  not  a  man  in  this  room  who  is  not  saying  to  him- 
self now,  "We  must  all  of  us  share  in  the  work.  The  party  looks 
to  us  for  the  political  sagacity  to  conduct  it  to  success." 

No  man  can  do  it  alone ;  but  if  I  were  asked  to  name  half  a  dozen 
men  in  this  party  who  could  fill  the  office  of  Chairman  of  this  Com- 
mittee acceptably,  and  execute  its  duties  satisfactorily,  I  would 


198  APPENDIX. 

name  three  men,  and  those  are  the  three  men  who  have  preceded 
me.  My  personal  friendships  for  these  three  gentlemen  dominate 
all  political  considerations  in  my  mind.  I  cherish  them  as  the 
dearest  things  in  life.  There  is  nothing  in  politics  stronger  than 
the  personal  affections  which  grow  up  between  men  standing  to- 
gether for  a  common  cause,  and  through  good  report  and  through 
evil  report. 

Now,  gentlemen,  if  I  believed  that  we  were  allowing  Senator 
Brice  to  take  a  back  seat  in  this  campaign,  I  would  raise  my  voice 
in  protest.  Let  us  organize  in  such  a  way  that  we  will  stand  to- 
gether, and  we  will  organize  in  such  a  way  that  we  will  stand  to- 
gether. Whoever  is  selected  as  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee 
will  feel  that  we  have  done  a  wise  thing  in  bringing  together  the 
leading  spirits  of  the  party,  and  all  of  us  will  feel  that  everything 
which  can  be  done  which  will  contribute  to  the  success  of  the  Dem- 
ocratic party  will  be  done. 

MR.  C.  S.  THOMAS,  of  Colorado  :  I  only  wish  to  detain  the  Com- 
mittee a  moment  by  saying  that  we  from  the  Far  West,  like  those 
who  have  been  more  intimately  associated  with  our  distinguished 
Chairman,  fully  appreciate  all  that  he  has  done  for  the  party,  and 
regret  as  deeply  and  poignantly  as  anyone  can  the  conclusion  and 
result  which  he  has  just  announced.  We  have  not  been  so  inti- 
mately associated  with  the  work  of  campaigns  in  the  past,  because 
the  distance  which  separates  us  from  the  center  of  national  political 
action  has  made  it  impossible. 

My  experience,  particularly,  upon  the  National  Committee,  has 
made  me  feel  that,  with  our  present  Chairman  in  charge  of  our 
campaign,  the  experience  gathered  by  him  four  years  ago  would 
prove  a  great  and  sure  foundation  for  success  in  this  campaign.  It 
was  that  feeling,  and  the  desire  to  see  our  Chairman  remain,  not 
only  because  of  the  apparent  necessity  to  the  party,  but  also  be- 
cause it  would  be  a  mark  of  the  recognition  and  confidence  which 
this  Committee  repose  in  him,  regardless  of  what  the  outside  world 
may  say,  that  caused  me  to  travel  3,000  miles  for  the  purpose  of 
casting  my  vote  for  him.  I  regret,  as  much  as  any  one  can,  that 
the  necessities  of  our  Chairman's  position  make  it  necessary  that 
he  should  come  to  this  conclusion,  and  I  hope — I  ought  not  to  say 
"I  hope,"  because  I  know — that  we  shall  find  him  by  the  side  of 
whomever  may  be  selected  to  preside  over  the  destinies  of  this 


APPENDIX.  199 

Committee  for  the  next  four  years,  giving  him  that  aid  and  that 
counsel  which  he  himself  has  reaped  from  the  experience  of  the 
past,  and  the  result  which  we  all  hope  to  achieve  may  be  as  much 
due  to  his  own  efforts  as  those  of  the  new  organization. 

MR.  ARTHUR  SEWALL,  of  Maine  (in  the  chair) :  The  matter  be- 
fore the  meeting  is  the  resolution  of  Mr.  Tarpey.  Are  you  ready 
for  the  question  ?  All  those  in  favor  of  giving  the  resolution  pass- 
age will  please  manifest  it  by  standing. 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  by  a  rising 
vote. 

MR.  CLARK  HOWELL,  JR.,  of  Georgia :  In  the  discussion,  Mr. 
Chairman,  incident  to  Mr.  Brice's  positive  refusal  to  allow  the  use 
of  his  name,  I  do  not  believe  that  a  word  has  been  stated  that  does 
not  voice  the  sentiment  of  Democracy  from  Maine  to  California. 
Therefore,  in  consideration  of  the  remarks  which  have  been  made 
by  Senator  Gorman,  Senator  Ransom,  Mr.  Whitney  and  others,  I 
move  that  the  veil  of  secrecy  be  removed  from  so  much  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  this  Committee  as  refers  to  the  resolutions  which  have 
been  adopted.  I  make  this  motion  in  justice  to  the  Committee  and 
in  justice  to  the  Chairman. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

At  this  point  Senator  Brice  resumed  the  Chair. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Gentlemen,  I  thank  you  sincerely  for  the  resolution 
to  which  I  have  listened,  and  the  expressions  of  approval  and  appro- 
bation which  have  been  made.  I  feel  very  much  as  those  of  us  who 
have  been  at  college  did  when  commencement  day  came  and  we 
knew  that  it  was  necessary  for  us  to  part— that  the  time  had  come 
when  we  must  go  out  into  the  world  and  sever  the  connection 
which  had  previously  existed.  Then  we  could  not  help  having 
some  feeling  at  the  thought  of  being  separated,  and  could  not  help 
being  moved  by  it. 

Now,  we  will  proceed  with  the  regular  order  of  business,  which  is 
the  selection  of  a  Chairman  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee. 
Nominations  are  in  order  for  that  office. 


200  APPENDIX. 

MR.  WHITNEY:  I  nominate  Mr.  Harrity,  from  Pennsylvania,  a 
member  of  the  Committee  from  Pennsylvania,  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Mr.  Harrity,  of  Pennsylvania,  is  placed  in  nomi- 
nation. Are  there  any  other  nominations? 

There  being  no  response,  Mr.  Tarpey,  of  California, 
said  : 

I  move  that  the  nomination  of  Mr.  Harrity  be  made  by  acclama- 
tion. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded  by  Mr.  Clark 
Howell,  Jr.,  of  Georgia,  was  put  to  a  vote  and  carried. 

Senator  Brice  then  introduced  Mr.  W.  F.  Harrity,  of 
Pennsylvania,  as  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee.  Mr. 
Harrity  said  : 

Gentlemen  of  the  Committee,  I  am  extremely  grateful  for  the  dis- 
tinguished honor  that  you  have,  unworthily  as  I  fear,  bestowed  upon 
me.  The  only  remark  that  I  can  make  at  this  time  is  the  promise 
to  give  my  best  effort  to  aid  in  achieving  success  for  our  party,  its 
principles  and  its  candidates.  They  deserve  success,  and  it  will  be 
your  duty  and  mine,  so  far  as  lies  in  our  power,  to  see  that  success 
is  achieved.  I  confidently  believe  it  will  be. 

I  am  deeply  sensible,  gentlemen,  of  the  great  responsibilities  that 
devolve  upon  me  as  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Democratic 
Committee,  and  I  am  not  at  all  unmindful  of  my  own  shortcomings. 
For  this  reason  I  shall  need,  and  I  shall  not  hesitate  to  ask  for,  your 
aid  and  your  indulgence.  I  am  sure  I  shall  feel  obliged  to  lean 
heavily  upon  the  members  of  this  Committee,  and  I  firmly  believe 
that  each  and  all  of  you  will  give  me  your  assistance  and  support 
throughout  the  campaign. 

I  am  prepared,  gentleman,  to  entertain  any  suggestion,  motion  or 
resolution  bearing  upon  the  campaign  upon  which  we  have  entered, 
or  upon  the  business  for  which  we  are  called  together. 

MR.  SMALLEY,  of  Vermont:  I  suppose  that  the  next  business  in 
order  will  be  the  election  of  a  Secretary. 


APPENDIX.  201 

THE  CHAIR  :     What  is  the  pleasure  of  the  meeting? 

MR.  SMALLEY  :  I  nominate  for  the  office  of  Secretary  of  the 
National  Democratic  Committee  the  present  Secretary,  Mr.  Sheerin, 
of  Indiana. 

MR.  THOMAS,  of  Colorado  :  Four  years  ago  the  State  of  Colo- 
rado had  the  honor  of  placing  Mr.  Sheerin  in  nomination,  and  it 
simply  craves  the  opportunity  now  to  heartily  second  the  same. 

THE  CHAIR  :  Mr.  Sheerin,  of  Indiana,  has  been  nominated  for 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  this  Committee.  Are  there  any  other  nom- 
inations. 

A  MEMBER  :     I  move  that  Mr.  Sheerin  be  elected  by  acclamation. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  unanimously  carried. 

MR.  SHEERIN,  of  Indiana  :  I  thank  you,  gentlemen,  for  this  high 
honor,  and  will  do  my  utmost  to  discharge  to  your  satisfaction  the 
duties  of  the  position  to  which  you  have  elected  me. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  election  of  a  Treasurer  is  next  in  order. 

MR.  SHEEHAN,  of  New  York  :  Without  making  any  extended  re- 
marks, I  simply  desire  to  name  for  this  position  the  Hon.  Robert 
B.  Roosevelt,  of  New  York  City.  I  have  known  Mr.  Roosevelt  for 
a  number  of  years,  as  doubtless  many  of  the  older  members  of  this 
Committee  have,  and  as  the  Treasurer  properly  comes  from  the 
City  of  New  York,  my  judgment,  and  the  judgment  of  those  with 
whom  I  have  talked  on  the  subject,  is  that  no  better  man  for  that 
position  can  be  selected  than  Mr.  Robert  B.  Roosevelt. 

Upon  motion,  duly  made  and  seconded,  Mr.  Roose- 
velt was  declared  elected  Treasurer  of  the  Committee, 
by  acclamation. 

Mr.  Sheerin,  of  Indiana,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tions : 

WHEREAS,  Since  the  last  meeting  of  this  Committee  it  has  pleased 
Almighty  God  to  remove  from  our  midst  Hon.  C.  A.  Broadwater, 
the  member  from  the  State  of  Montana,  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Broadwater  the  Committee 
loses  one  who,  in  the  short  time  he  had  been  a  member,  had  proven 


202  APPENDIX. 

his  value  to  this  body  as  a  Democrat  of  unswerving  loyalty,  ener- 
getic and  efficient  in  the  performance  of  the  duties  pertaining  to  his 
position,  and  one  whose  death  is  a  serious  loss  to  the  Democracy  of 
his  State  and  to  the  country. 

Resolved,  That  this  expression  of  sorrow  be  spread  upon  the  rec- 
ords of  this  Committee,  and  that  the  Secretary  be  instructed  to 
transmit  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 

This  motion  was  unanimously  adopted. 

THE  CHAIR:  The  Chair  desires  to  announce  the  appointment  of 
the  committee  authorized  under  the  resolution  offered  by  Senator 
Gorman.  The  committee  is  to  consist  of  Senator  Gorman,  Senator 
Pasco  and  Mr.  Blair. 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  I  move  the  passage  of  four  resolutions,  which  I 
will  read,  and  before  reading  them  let  me  say  that  they  are  the 
usual  resolutions,  with  the  exception  of  one,  which,  perhaps,  needs 
a  little  explanation.  Therefore,  I  will  read  it  first.  It  provides  for 
an  Advisory  Committee,  for  an  Executive  Committee — the  usual 
Executive  Committee,  and  a  Campaign  Committee  of  the  Executive 
Committee.  It  provides,  also,  for  an  Advisory  Committee  to  be 
appointed,  the  number  of  which  is  to  be  determined  by  the  Cam- 
paign Committee,  which  can  be  appointed  from  within  or  without 
the  membership  of  the  National  Committee.  It  follows  somewhat 
the  practice  in  our  State,  in  which  we  recognize  that  each  cam- 
paign is  to  be  treated  by  itself.  We  are  accustomed  to  make  up  a 
Campaign  Committee  which  is  of  a  miscellaneous  character.  The 
candidates  usually  have  two  or  three  very  earnest,  active  and  zeal- 
ous friends  who  are  willing  to  act  upon  that  committee.  It  places 
in  the  power  of  the  party  a  wider  scope  in  selection  of  men  who  are 
willing  to  devote  themselves  to  the  work  of  the  campaign,  and,  to 
my  mind,  it  is  the  true  way  of  organization.  Perhaps  I  ought  not 
to  suggest  it  in  the  form  of  a  regular  resolution,  but  it  seems  to  me 
that  it  is  the  proper  thing  for  this  Committee  to  organize  in  this 
manner.  When  we  were  discussing  the  question  whether  Mr.  Brice 
should  be  made  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee,  it  seemed  to  me 
that  he  ought  to  have  a  place  on  it,  at  least,  where  he  should  go,  and 
others  to  whom  we  look  for  the  success  of  the  campaign  should  go, 
and  take  the  responsibility  of  the  position  and  the  honor  of  the  po- 
sition, and  pull  together  for  the  success  of  the  ticket.  Now,  I  be- 
lieve there  are  men  whom  the  Democracy  of  the  country  recognize 


APPENDIX.  203 

as  skilled  in  the  management  of  party  affairs,  who  could  serve  upon 
an  Advisory  Committee,  and  whose  services  would  be  extremely 
valuable.  I  only  go  back  to  the  campaign  of  1876,  because  there  I 
became  intimately  acquainted  with  that  great  man  who  was,  to  my 
mind,  the  greatest  organizer  that  was  ever  in  our  party,  Mr.  Tilden. 
His  campaign  was  run  in  his  own  house,  without  a  paper  hardly, 
but  there  he  was  thinking  of  the  campaign  at  all  times — there  he 
was  to  be  found,  day  and  night,  in  constant  communication  with 
the  leading  men  of  the  party,  and  there  it  was  that  the  brain  work 
of  the  campaign  was  done.  Let  us  have  the  benefit  of  the  brains 
and  experience  of  a  number  of  our  public  men,  a  half  a  dozen  or  a 
dozen  whose  brain  work  we  want  for  this  fight.  Let  us  place  them 
in  a  position  of  honor,  where  they  will  find  pleasure  in  the  work 
which  will  bring  success  to  the  ticket.  For  that  reason  I  have  sug- 
gested the  appointment  of  an  additional  committee.  Perhaps  the 
Secretary  had  better  read  the  whole  resolutions. 

The  resolutions  offered  by  Mr.  Whitney  were  as  fol- 
lows : 

Resolved,  That  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee  shall  consist  of  twenty-five  members,  who  shall 
be  designated  by  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Committee,  and 
that  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Committee  shall  be  ex  officio 
Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 

Resolved,  That  the  Campaign  Committee  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee  shall  consist  of  nine  members,  who  shall  be  desig- 
nated by  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Committee,  the  said  Chair- 
man to  be  also  one  of  the  members  of  said  Campaign  Committee  ; 
and  that  said  Campaign  Committee,  when  appointed,  shall  select  its 
own  Chairman  from  within  or  without  the  said  Campaign  Commit- 
tee, or  from  within  or  without  the  National  Democratic  Committee. 

Resolved,  That  the  Advisory  Committee  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee,  which  Committee  the  Chairman  of  the  National 
Democratic  Committee  is  hereby  authorized  to  appoint,  from  within 
or  without  the  membership  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee, 
shall  consist  of  such  number  of  members  as  may  be  deemed  proper 
by  the  Campaign  Committee. 

Resolved,  That  the  conduct  and  direction  of  the  campaign  of  1892 
shall  be  under  the  charge  of  the  Chairman  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee  and  "of  the  Campaign  Committee,  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Democratic 
Committee. 


204  APPENDIX. 

THE  CHAIR  :  You  have  heard  the  resolutions,  gentlemen ;  what 
is  your  pleasure  ? 

Upon  motion  by  Senator  Brice,  duly  seconded,  the 
resolutions  were  adopted  as  read. 

Mr.  Thomas,  of  Colorado,  then  presented  the  follow- 
ing resolution,  and  moved  its  adoption  : 

Resolved,  That  the  sincere  and  earnest  thanks  of  this  Committee 
are  hereby  tendered  to  the  Hon.  C.  J.  Canda,  for  many  years  Treas- 
urer of  the  National  Democratic  Committee,  for  the  able,  conscien- 
tious and  thorough  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  the  duties  of 
his  office,  and  for  the  constant  and  unfailing  courtesy  which  ever 
characterized  his  intercourse  with  its  members. 

This  resolution,  being  duly  seconded,  was  unani- 
mously adopted. 

MR.  BRICE,  of  Ohio :  An  Official  Stenographer  in  1888  was 
appointed — Mr.  Edward  B.  Dickinson — who  is  now  on  his  summer 
vacation,  and  who  is  not  able  to  be  present.  He  wrote  me  a  letter, 
which  I  received  a  short  time  ago,  and  which,  perhaps,  I  ought  to 
have  produced  at  this  meeting.  In  that  letter  he  stated  that  his 
business  would  not  allow  him  this  year,  in  consequence  of  his  engage- 
ments in  the  courts  and  elsewhere,  to  do  the  work  of  this  Committee, 
but  I  think  a  resolution  somewhat  similar  to  the  one  just  offered  on 
behalf  of  Mr.  Canda  is  due  to  Col.  Dickinson,  because  of  the  arduous 
and  valuable  services  he  has  rendered  in  the  four  previous  cam- 
paigns, and  I  move  that  a  resolution  be  spread  upon  the  records  of 
this  meeting  expressing  thanks  to  Col.  Dickinson  for  his  past  services, 
and  regretting  that  he  cannot  continue  with  us  in  the  future. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  unanimously  carried,  and  the  following  resolutions 
were  directed  to  be  spread  upon  the  records  of  the 
Committee  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Committee  are  due  and  are 
hereby  tendered  to  Col.  Edward  B.  Dickinson  for  his  faithful  and 
valuable  services  as  Official  Stenographer  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee,  during  the  past  sixteen  years. 

Resolved,  That  this  Committee  learns  with  sincere  regret  that, 
owing  to  his  official  position  in  court,  and  to  the  pressure  of  his  private 
business  engagements,  Colonel  Dickinson  will  be  unable  to  continue 
in  the  service  of  the  Committee  during  the  coming  campaign. 


APPENDIX.  205 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  I  have  been  visited  by  a  number  of  real  estate 
men,  and  we  have  the  option  of  one  or  two  houses  suitable  for  the 
headquarters  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee.  I  think  if 
we  could  get  one  soon,  we  ought  to  do  it,  and  if  we  could  open  our 
headquarters  before  the  Republicans  do,  that  it  would  be  a  very 
good  idea.  Therefore,  I  move  that  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  be 
constituted  a  committee  on  headquarters. 

MR.  BRICE  :     With  power  ? 
MR.  WHITNEY  :     With  power. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded;  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

THE  SECRETARY  :  I  have  a  communication  here  which  seems  to 
be  important,  which  I  will  read  : 

NEW  YORK,  July  20,  1892. 
To  the  Members  of  the  National  Democratic  Committee  : 

GENTLEMEN: — A  committee  representing  New  York  Typograph- 
ical Union,  No.  6,  and  Philadelphia  Typographical  Union,  No.  2,  de- 
sires to  appear  before  your  Committee  on  a  matter  relating  to  the 
printing  trade.  Please  notify  us  by  telegraph,  at  the  rooms  of  the 
New  York  Typographical  Union,  240  William  Street,  of  the  earliest 
date  and  hour  when  these  committees  can  appear  before  you. 

Respectfully  yours, 

GEORGE  CHANCE,  JOSEPH  D.  WELDRICK, 

President,  No.  2.  Treasurer,  No.  6. 

WILLIAM  J.  BOLLMAN,  WILLIAM  McCABE,  No.  6. 

Secretary,  No.  2.  C.  M.  MAXWELL,  No.  6. 

JEFF.  W.  SMITH,  F.  J.  KUSTENMACHER,  No.  6. 

Chairman  Bus,  Com.,  No.  2. 

THE  CHAIR  :  What  disposition  should  be  made  of  the  communi- 
cation which  has  just  been  received. 

MR.  SMALLEY,  of  Vermont :  It  seems  to  me  that  it  would  be  good 
policy  for  this  Committee  to  give  that  committee  a  hearing.  I 
have  not  the  slightest  idea  what  they  want,  but  they  represent  a 
very  large  and  influential  body.  It  is  evident  that  we  have  got  to 
take  a  recess  to  hear  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Contested 


206  APPENDIX. 

Seats.  I  think  that  they  should  be  notified  that  they  will  be 
allowed  to  appear,  at  the  convenience  of  the  committee.  I  do  not 
make  that  as  a  motion,  because  there  are  other  gentlemen  who 
know  more  about  the  matter  than  I. 

MR.  SHEEHAN,  of  New  York  :  I  have  been  making  some  inqui- 
ries with  reference  to  the  subject  matter  addressed  to  the  Secretary, 
which  affects  very  materially  the  party  in  this  State,  and  also  other 
parts  of  the  country.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  desire  is  that  all  Dem- 
ocratic newspapers  and  newspaper  organizations  throughout  the 
country  should  be  unionized,  if  this  Committee  can  bring  it  about. 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  New  York  Tribune,  which  was  for  a 
long  time  what  is  called  a  "  rat  office,"  has  been  unionized  as  a  Re- 
publican paper,  I  think  we  ought  to  do  something  in  that  direction. 
It  also  seems  to  me  that  if  we  are  to  do  anything  in  that  direction 
we  cannot  well  do  it  in  public.  If  you  admit  any  gentlemen  here 
and  give  them  a  hearing  at  this  time,  letting  them  specifically  state 
their  grievances  against  the  newspapers,  then  all  the  owners  of  those 
papers  will  rebel  at  being  compelled  to  accede  to  their  demands. 
It  seems  to  me  that  the  matter  might  be  referred  to  the  Executive 
Committee,  or  to  the  Campaign  Committee,  and  that  these  gentle- 
men might  be  notified  that  if  they  have  any  grievances  against  any 
newspapers,  they  might  submit  the  same  to  that  committee,  either 
in  person  or  in  writing. 

THE  CHAIR  :     Does  the  gentleman  make  that  as  a  motion? 
MR.  SHEEHAN  :     Yes,  sir. 

THE  CHAIR  :  It  has  been  moved  by  the  member  from  New  York 
that  the  committee  be  notified  that  their  communication  has  been 
referred  to  the  Campaign  Committee,  and  that  that  committee, 
when  appointed,  will  fix  a  time  and  place  for  the  hearing. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

MR.  RICHARDSON,  of  Iowa  :  I  move,  Mr.  Chairman,  that  the 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  Contested  Seats  in  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Committee  shall  be  accepted  as  final,  when  made. 

MR.  DORAN,  of  Minnesota  :  I  do  not  know  what  that  committee 
has  to  say.  I  think  we  ought  to  know. 

MR.  RICHARDSON,  of  Iowa  :  It  is  to  prevent  calling  the  Com- 
mittee together  again  to  consider  the  question. 


APPENDIX.  207 

SENATOR  PASCO,  of  Florida  :  It  would  seem  to  me  tfiat,  if  we  are 
to  have  another  session  of  the  Committee  at  this  time,  it  would  be 
far  better  to  submit  their  report  and  let  it  be  referred  to  the  entire 
National  Committee,  and  I  hope  the  gentleman  will  withdraw  his 
motion.  I  suppose  there  will  be  another  meeting  soon  of  this  Com- 
mittee, and  the  committee  to  whom  this  matter  has  been  referred 
can,  probably,  make  their  report  at  that  adjourned  meeting. 

MR.  SHEEHAN,  of  New  York  :  There  probably  will  not  be  another 
meeting  of  this  Committee  before  election.  That  resolution  which 
was  offered  will  have  to  be  determined  upon  before  that  time,  and, 
it  seems  to  me,  this  committee,  of  which  the  eminent  Senator  from 
Florida  is  a  member,  can  be  trusted  to  decide  the  question  upon  its 
merits. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  ought  to  state  that  he  will  be  absolutely 
unable  to  announce  any  committees  this  afternoon.  It  is  a  matter 
that  will  require  considerable  time,  and  the  Chair  will  have  to  be 
assisted  by  experienced  members  of  this  Committee.  I  ought  to  add 
that  it  is  my  intention  to  make  up  the  committees  authorized  to  be 
appointed,  at  as  early  a  time  as  practicable,  and  to  announce  them 
and  convene  them ;  but  it  would  be  impossible  to  do  that  to-day. 

SENATOR  PASCO,  of  Florida  :  It  would  seem  to  be  necessary  that 
the  question  should  be  decided  at  the  present  time,  as  to  who  the 
regular  delegates  in  these  two  contested  cases  are.  Why  should  we 
not  let  those  cases  be  settled  here  now.  Could  not  these  gentlemen 
state  their  claims  before  the  full  Committee,  and  could  we  not 
decide  at  once  ? 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  resolution  already  adopted  would  have  to  be 
reconsidered  before  that  could  be  done. 

The  original  motion  of  Mr.  Richardson,  of  Iowa,  that 
the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Contested  Seats  should 
be  accepted  as  final  when  made,  was  then  put,  and  being 
duly  seconded,  carried. 

SENATOR  PASCO,  of  Florida  :  I  move  that  the  resolution  adopted 
by  the  National  Democratic  Convention,  with  reference  to  the 
restrictions  to  be  made  for  the  holding  of  the  Convention  in  1896, 
be  adopted  by  this  Committee. 


208  APPENDIX. 

THE  CHAIR  :  As  I  understand  it,  that  was  a  resolution  adopted 
by  the  National  Democratic  Convention  with  reference  to  the 
restrictions  to  be  made  for  holding  a  new  National  Convention, 
which  provided  that  the  matter  should  be  referred  to  a  sub-com- 
mittee of  five,  of  which  the  Chairman  should  be  one. 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  If  I  understand  the  resolution  that  was  referred  to 
this  Committee,  it  provided  for  the  holding  of  a  Convention  in  a  small 
hall.  In  other  words  that  there  should  not  be  any  large  audience. 
This  Committee  does  not  meet  until  a  very  short  time  before  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  meets.  They  meet  for  the  pur- 
pose of  considering  where  the  next  Convention  shall  be  held.  With 
an  uncertainty  as  to  how  this  Committee  will  act  when  the  special 
committee  reports,  it  leaves  the  question  almost  in  as  bad  condition 
as  it  is  now.  If  you  are  going  to  pass  upon  it,  you  can  do  it  just  as 
well  now  as  at  any  other  time.  I  think  it  would  be  wise  to  appoint 
a  committee  to  report  only  a  month  or  two  before  the  Convention. 
When  this  Committee  meets  for  the  purpose  of  naming  a  time  and 
place  for  the  next  Convention,  it  seems  to  me  that  that  would  be  a 
very  proper  time  for  that  committee  to  make  a  report,  and  for  this 
General  Committee  to  pass  upon  it  at  that  time. 

SENATOR  PASCO,  of  Florida  :  The  National  Committee  will  meet 
in  1896  for  the  purpose  of  making  the  arrangements.  At  that  time 
the  report  of  this  committee  will  be  made,  and  if  the  resolution 
which  I  have  suggested  is  passed,  that  committee  will  then  be  ready 
to  report,  and  that  will  settle  the  matter.  The  entire  National 
Democratic  Committee  will  have  to  act  upon  it.  It  will  be  time 
enough  to  determine  the  manner  in  which  the  National  Convention 
shall  be  held.  It  will  be  a  meeting  called  for  that  purpose,  and  at 
that  time  the  sub-committee,  which  is  to  be  appointed,  will  be 
ready  with  their  report.  There  is  no  necessity  for  any  action  prior 
to  that  time. 

SENATOR  GORMAN,  of  Maryland  :  The  resolution  offered  by  the 
Senator  from  Florida  provides  that  the  committee  may  be  appointed 
and  a  determination  arrived  at  early  in  1893  or  1894.  This  Com- 
mittee will  be  called  together  at  the  close  of  the  campaign,  and,  we 
all  trust,  on  the  fourth  of  March  in  Washington,  if  we  are  success- 
ful in  electing  our  candidates.  But  this  question  ought  to  be  deter- 
mined long  before  the  meeting  of  the  National  Committee  for  the 
purpose  of  selecting  a  place,  and  preventing  the  unseemly  struggle 


APPENDIX.  209 

which  has  occurred  every  four  years  among  the  various  cities  in 
their  efforts  to  secure  the  Convention.  I  should  like  to  have  the 
resolution  adopted  with  a  view  of  having  the  whole  matter  deter- 
mined long  before  that  time,  the  committee  to  report  at  some  future 
meeting  of  this  Committee. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  motion  is  that  the  resolution  offered  by  Gen- 
eral Collins  in  the  National  Democratic  Convention  with  reference  to 
the  provisions  for  holding  the  next  National  Convention,  the  sug- 
gestion being  made  that  it  be  held  in  a  small  hall,  be  referred  to  a 
committee  of  five  of  this  Committee,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Chair, 
to  report  at  a  future  meeting  of  this  Committee,  the  Chairman  of 
this  Committee  to  be  the  Chairman  of  that  committee. 

The  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

Mr.  Norris,  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  then  stated 
that  he  proposed  to  offer  a  resolution  relative  to  the 
Campaign  Book,  stating  that  a  book  had  been  prepared 
containing  a  number  of  speeches  made  on  the  floor  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  on  the  tariff,  in  advocacy 
of  lower  duties. 

Upon  motion  of  Mr.  Doran,  Mr.  Norris  consenting 
thereto,  the  matter  contained  in  the  resolution  was 
referred  to  the  Campaign  Committee  of  the  National 
Democratic  Committee. 

MR.  TARPEY,  of  California :  I  would  like  to  ask  what  has  been 
done  by  the  Congressional  Committee,  if  anything,  in  relation  to 
the  Campaign  Text  Book?  Heretofore  we  have  been  furnished 
with  that  rather  early  in  the  campaign,  and  I  think  the  earlier  the 
better,  because  in  places  as  remote  as  California  we  are  required  to 
have  our  ammunition  in  the  magazines  as  early  as  possible. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  Chair  is  unable  to  furnish  any  definite  infor- 
mation as  to  that.  I  take  it  the  Campaign  Committee,  when 
appointed,  will  immediately  place  itself  in  communication  with  the 
Executive  Committee.  Perhaps  Senator  Brice  may  have  some  in- 
formation on  that  subject  ? 

14 


210  APPENDIX. 

SENATOR  BRICE,  of  Ohio  :  No  arrangements  have  as  yet  been 
made,  so  far  as  I  know,  that  have  resulted  in  the  publication  of  any 
documents  except  speeches  that  have  been  made  by  Senators  and 
Members  of  the  House.  Such  speeches  as  are  selected  by  the  Con- 
gressional Committee  for  general  circulation  are  being  printed  in 
large  numbers,  so  as  to  respond  to  the  demands  of  the  kind  of  which 
the  gentleman  speaks.  Nothing  further  than  that  has  been  done. 

A  MEMBER  :  In  reference  to  the  Congressional  Committee,  I  will 
state  that  we  have  prepared  a  text  book  for  the  use  of  speakers. 
That  book  is  completed  and  printed,  so  that  those  books  of  the 
Congressional  Committee  will  be  distributed.  That  is  a  book  in  the 
neighboorhood  of  100  pages,  which  has  been  prepared  by  Members 
of  the  House  and  of  the  Senate  selected  for  that  particular  purpose. 
It  is  not  a  campaign  book,  but  a  book  for  the  use  of  speakers,  simi- 
lar to  that  issued  by  the  Republicans. 

THE  CHAIR:  Are  there  any  other  motions  or  resolutions  to  be 
offered  ? 

MR.  TARPEY,  of  California :  I  would  like  to  make  a  suggestion. 
Would  it  not  be  well  to  request  the  Secretary  to  correspond  with 
the  State  Committeeman,  the  Chairmen  of  the  State  Committees  of 
the  respective  States,  and  get  from  them  the  names  and  addresses 
of  every  member  of  the  State  Committees,  and  place  them  on  file 
with  this  Committee  as  early  as  possible. 

THE  CHAIR  :  The  suggestion  will  be  adopted.  Are  there  any 
other  suggestions  ? 

A  MEMBER:  I  would  suggest  that  a  list  of  the  members  of  the 
National  Committee,  with  their  full  addresses,  be  furnished  each 
member. 

THE  CHAIR  :  That  will  be  done,  I  take  it,  just  as  soon  as'  the 
committees  are  appointed  so  that  it  may  be  complete. 

MR.  RICHARDSON,  of  Iowa  :  I  move  that  the  Committee  adjourn, 
subject  to  the  call  of  the  Chairman. 

MR.  NORRIS,  of  the  District  of  Columbia  :  I  am  here  for  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  am  ready  now  to  adjust  this  matter.  It 
can  be  done  in  a  very  few  minutes.  I  have  prepared  a  statement 
which,  if  your  Committee  will  permit  me,  I  will  read. 


APPENDIX.  211 

THE  CHAIR  :  That  matter  has  already  been  referred  to  a  sub- 
committee. What  is  the  pleasure  of  the  Committee? 

MR.  DORAN,  of  Minnesota  :  We  have  passed  on  that  already,  I 
think. 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  It  occurs  to  me  to  make  a  suggestion,  which  I 
think  will  expedite  the  action  of  the  Campaign  Committee  when 
appointed,  and  that  is  that  every  member  of  this  Committee  from  a 
doubtful  State,  or  a  State  which  he  considers  doubtful,  or  the  Com- 
mittee consider  to  be  so,  immediately  upon  arriving  home,  by  con- 
ference with  the  Chairman  of  the  State  Committee,  or  by  himself, 
make  a  report  at  once  in  writing  to  the  Chairman  of  this  Committee. 
The  purpose  of  that,  and  its  propriety,  I  think  anybody  well  knows 
without  any  necessity  of  explanation.  I  make  that  motion. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

MR.  SEWALL,  of  Maine  :  I  would  like  to  have  it  understood,  un- 
less objection  is  made,  that  the  speeches  made  in  response  to  the 
resolution  of  Mr.  Tarpey,  regarding  your  predecessor,  be  entered 
in  full  upon  the  minutes  of  this  meeting. 

THE  CHAIR  :     The  Chair  understands  that  that  will  be  done. 

MR.  TARPEY  :  I  would  like  to  say  one  wdrd  of  explanation. 
When  I  arose  to  offer  that  resolution  I  intended  to  have  said  some- 
thing regarding  the  resolution,  but  my  emotions  were  greater  than 
I  was  aware  of,  and  I  was  obliged  to  present  the  resolution  without 
any  comment. 

MR.  WHITNEY  :  I  would  like  to  have  the  motion  I  last  made  be 
understood  to  relate  to  every  State  in  the  Union. 

This  motion,  being  duly  seconded,  was  put  to  a  vote 
and  carried. 

Upon  motion  of  Mr.  Blair,  of  Kansas,  the  meeting 
adjourned,  to  re-convene  at  the  call  of  the  Chairman. 


212  APPENDIX. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  National  Democratic 
Committee,  the  Executive  Committee,  and  the  Cam- 
paign Committee  of  1892  : 

NATIONAL   DEMOCRATIC   COMMITTEE. 

Alabama Henry  D.  Clayton .  . .   Eufaula. 

Arkansas U.M.Rose...      Little  Rock. 

California M.  F.  Tarpey Alameda. 

Colorado Charles  S.  Thomas Denver. 

Connecticut Carlos  French Seymour. 

Delaware Lewis  C.  Vandegrift Wilmington. 

Florida Samuel  Pasco Monticello. 

Georgia Clark  Howell,  Jr Atlanta. 

Idaho Frank  W.  Beane Blackfoot, 

Illinois Ben.  T.  Cable Rock  Island. 

Indiana.. Simon  P.  Sheerin Logansport. 

Iowa J.  J.  Richardson Davenport 

Kansas Charles  W.  Blair Leavenworth. 

Kentucky Thomas  H.  Sherley Louisville. 

Louisiana James  Jeffries Rapides. 

Maine Arthur  Sewall Bath. 

Maryland Arthur  P.  Gorman Laurel. 

Massachusetts Josiah  Quincy Boston. 

Michigan Daniel  J.  Campau Detroit. 

Minnesota Michael  Doran St.  Paul. 

Mississippi Charles  B.  Howry Oxford. 

Missouri John  G.  Prather , St.  Louis. 

Montana <  . . .  A.  J.  Davidson Helena. 

Nebraska Tobias  Castor Lincoln. 

Nevada R.  P.  Keating Virginia  City. 

New  Hampshire Alvah  W.  Sulloway Franklin. 

New  Jersey Miles  Ross New  Brunswick. 

New  York William  F.  Sheehan Buffalo. 

North  Carolina M .  W.  Ransom Weldon. 

North  Dakota William  C.  Leistikow Grafton. 

Ohio Calvin  S.  Brice Lima. 

Oregon E.  D.  McKee Portland. 

Pennsylvania William  F.  Harrity Philadelphia. 

Rhode  Island. Samuel  R.  Honey Newport. 

South  Carolina M.  L.  Donaldson Greenville. 

South  Dakota James  M.  Woods Rapid  City. 

Tennessee Holmes  Cummings Memphis. 

Texas  ..., O.  T.  Holt Houston. 

Vermont Bradley  B.  Smalley Burlington. 

Virginia Basil  B.  Gordon Charlottesville. 

Washington Hugh  C.  Wallace Tacoma. 


APPENDIX.  213 

West  Virginia John  Sheridan Piedmont. 

Wisconsin E.  C.  Wall Milwaukee. 

Wyoming W.  L.  Kuykendall Saratoga. 

Alaska A.  K.  Delaney Juneau. 

Arizona Charles  M.  Shannon Clifton. 

District  of  Columbia James  L.  Norris Washington. 

New  Mexico H.  B.  Ferguson Albuquerque. 

Oklahoma T.  M.  Richardson Oklahoma  City. 

Utah Samuel  A.  Merritt Salt  Lake  City. 

Indian  Territory 

OFFICERS. 

WILLIAM  F.  HARRITY, 
Chairman  National  Democratic  Committee. 

SIMON  P.  SHEERIN, 
Secretary  National  Democratic  Committee. 

ROBERT  B.  ROOSEVELT, 
Treasurer  National  Democratic  Committee. 

DON  M.  DICKINSON, 
Chairman  Campaign  Committee. 

B.  B.  SMALLEY, 
Chairman  Committee  on  Campaign  Speakers. 

JOSIAH   QUINCY, 
Chairman  Committee  oh  Campaign  Literature. 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE. 

M.  F.  TARPEY.  CHARLES  S.  THOMAS.  CARLOS  FRENCH. 

SAMUEL  PASCO.  CLARK  HOWELL,  JR.  J.  J.  RICHARDSON. 

CHARLES  W.  BLAIR.  THOMAS  H.  SHERLEY.  JAMES  JEFFRIES. 

ARTHUR  SEWALL.  ARTHUR  P.  GORMAN.  DANIEL  J.  CAMPAU. 

MICHAEL  DORAN.  CHARLES  B.  HOWRY.  JOHN  G.  PRATHER. 

ALVAH  W.  SULLOWAY.  MILES  Ross.  WILLIAM  F.  SHEEHAN. 

M.  W.  RANSOM.  CALVIN  S.  BRICE.  SAMUEL  R.  HONEY. 

HOLMES  CUMMINGS.  O.  T.  HOLT.  BRADLEY  B.  SMALLEY. 

BASIL  B.  GORDON. 

WILLIAM  F.  HARRITY,       S.  P.  SHEERIN, 

Chairman.  Secretary. 

CAMPAIGN    COMMITTEE. 

CALVIN  S.  BRICE.  A.  P.  GORMAN.  WILLIAM  F.  SHEEHAN. 

B.  B.  SMALLEY.  M.  W.  RANSOM.  B.  T.  CABLE. 

E.  C.  WALL.  JOSIAH  QUINCY.  WILLIAM  F.  HARRITY. 

WILLIAM  C.  WHITNEY. 

DON  M.  DICKINSON,  B.  B.  SMALLEY, 

Chairman.  Secretary. 

COMMITTEE    IN    CHARGE    AT   CHICAGO. 

DON  M.  DICKINSON,  Chairman,  ex-officio. 
B  T.  CABLE,  of  Illinois.  E.  C.  WALL,  of  Wisconsin. 


214  APPENDIX. 

The  following  is  the  official  record  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  committee  appointed  to  notify  the  candidates,  as 
furnished  by  Hon.  Nicholas  M.  Bell,  secretary  of  that 
committee  : 

COMMITTEE    OF    NOTIFICATION. 

Committee  met  immediately  after  the  adjournment  of 
the  Convention.  Hon.  Rufus  N.  Rhodes,  of  Alabama, 
was  chosen  temporary  chairman,  and  Nicholas  M.  Bell, 
of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  temporary  secretary.  Mr.  Mc- 
Leary,  of  Texas,  nominated  Mr.  Collier,  of  Tennessee, 
as  chairman  of  the  committee.  Mr.  White,  of  Califor- 
nia, nominated  Mr.  Wilson,  Chairman  of  the  Conven- 
tion, as  chairman  of  the  committee.  After  djscussion, 
Mr.  Collier's  name  was  withdrawn  and  Mr.  Wilson  was 
unanimously  elected  chairman  of  the  committee  :  and 
upon  motion  of  Gov.  Houser,  of  Montana,  Nicholas  M. 
Bell,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  was  elected  secretary,  and  the 
following  members  were  present  and  answered  to  their 
names : 

Alabama Rufus  N.  Rhodes Birmingham. 

Arkansas B.  R.  Davidson Fayetteville. 

California Stephen  M.  White 

Colorado Frank  Adams Gunnison. 

Florida W.  D.  Chipley Pensacola. 

Georgia John  Triplett Thomasville. 

Idaho R.  L.  Johnson Boise  City. 

Illinois Thomas  M.  Thornton Shelby ville. 

Indiana W.  A.  Cullop Vincennes. 

Kansas James  W.  Orr Atchison 

Kentucky John  P.  Salyer West  Liberty. 

Louisiana A.   W.  Crandall New  Orleans. 

Maine Edward  C.  Swett Portland. 

Michigan Richard  A.  Montgomery Lansing. 

Minnesota Charles  M.  Foote Minneapolis. 

Mississippi W.  V.  Sullivan 

Montana S.  T.   Houser Helena. 

Nebraska .John  A.  Crayton Omaha. 

Nevada..  .   C.  W.  Hutchcliff.  . ,  ..Austin. 


APPENDIX.  215 

New  Hampshire Henry  R.  Parker Dover. 

New  York. .    : Norman  E.  Mack Buffalo. 

North  Carolina Kope  Elias Franklin. 

North  Dakota Andrew  Blewett     Jamestown. 

Oregon Henry  Blackman 

Pennsylvania J.  Henry  Cochran Williamsport. 

South  Carolina T.  D.  Jerney,  Jr Charleston. 

South  Dakota Wm.  Van  Eps Sioux  Falls. 

Tennessee Wm.  A.  Collier Memphis. 

Texas J.  H.  McLeary San  Antonio. 

Vermont ,    Oscar  C.  Miller ; Newport. 

Virginia Abraham  Fulkenson Bristol. 

Washington John  Collins 

Wisconsin James  Barden Superior. 

Wyoming Robert  H.  Homer Washington. 

Alaska James  Sheakley 

Arizona E.  E.  Elwood 

District  of  Columbia Henry  E.  Davis 

New  Mexico E.  V.  Long Las  Vegas. 

Oklahoma T.  M.  Richardson 

Utah Henry  P.  Henderson 

ABSENT. 

Connecticut Robert  J.  Vance 

Delaware Robert  J.  Reynolds • 

Iowa L.  M.  Martin 

Maryland L.  Victor  Baughman Fredericksburg. 

Massachusetts. . .  • Patrick  Maguire Boston. 

Missouri James  W.  Walker St.  Joseph. 

New  Jersey George  H.  Barker 

Ohio R.  R.  Holden 

Rhode  Island Fayette  E.  Bartlett 

On  motion  of  Governor  White,  of  California,  Hon. 
W.  C.  Owens,  temporary  Chairman  of  the  Convention, 
was  invited  to  accompany  the  committee  when  it  noti- 
fies the  .nominees  of  their  nomination. 

The  following-  resolution  was  offered  by  Hon.  Mr. 
Chipley,  of  Florida,  and  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Chairman  be  requested  to  extend  to  the  Na- 
tional Democratic  Committee  an  invitation  to  be  present  when  the 
official  notification  of  the  nominees  of  that  Convention  is  made. 


216  APPENDIX. 

Upon  motion  of  Mr.  Chipley,  of  Florida,  the  Secre- 
tary was  directed  to  cause  an  official  copy  of  the  Plat- 
form and  the  addresses  of  the  committee  to  be  properly 
engrossed  and  bound  for  the  committee  to  present  to 
each  of  the  nominees. 

Upon  motion  of  Hon.  W.  A.  Cullop,  of  Indiana,  the 
chairman  was  instructed  to  appoint  a  committee  of  five 
to  wait  on  the  nominees  to  learn  when  and  where  it 
would  be  their  pleasure  to  receive  the  committee,  and 
make  such  arrangements  on  the  part  of  the  committee 
as  was  necessary. 

The  chairman  appointed  Hon.  Norman  E.  Mack,  of 
Buffalo,  New  York  ;  Hon.  W.  A.  Cullop,  of  Indiana ; 
Hon.  Robt.  J.  Vance,  of  Connecticut ;  Hon.  Patrick 
Maguire,  of  Massachusetts ;  and  Hon.  Geo.  H.  Barker, 
of  New  Jersey. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Collier,  of  Tennessee,  the  chair- 
man appointed  a  committee  of  three,  consisting  of  Mr. 
Collier,  Mr.  McLeary,  of  Texas,  and  Mr.  Foote,  of  Min- 
nesota, a  committee  to  draft  addresses  for  the  com- 
mittee to  the  nominees  for  President  and  Vice-President. 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Chipley,  of  Florida,  the  committee 
adjourned,  to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  chairman. 

On  July  8th,  the  Hon.  W.  L.  Wilson,  chairman,  di- 
rected the  secretary  to  call  the  committee  to  meet  in 
New  York  City,  at  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  on  July  20th, 
at  ten  o'clock,  A.  M. 

The  committee  met,  pursuant  to  the  call,  at  the  time 
and  place  designated  above. 

The  Sub-Committee  of  Arrangements  appointed,  re- 
ported that  the  committee  would  publicly  notify  the 


APPENDIX.  217 

nominees  of  their  nominations  at  the  Madison  Square 
Garden,  at  8.30  p.  M.  that  day,  and  that  a  local  committee 
of  one  hundred  citizens  of  the  City  and  State  of  New 
York  had  been  appointed  a  Committee  of  Arrangements 
to  entertain  the  committee. 

The  sub-committee  to  prepare  addresses,  presented 
their  report  of  the  two  letters  of  the  Committee  of  Noti- 
fication. They  were  duly  signed.  On  motion  of  Mr. 
Chipley,  of  Florida,  the  secretary,  Nicholas  M.  Bell, 
was  directed  at  the  proper  time  in  the  proceedings  to 
read  same,  as  the  representative  of  the  committee. 
Mr.  White,  of  California,  offered  a  substitute  that  the 
chairman  of  the  sub-committee  be  requested  to  read 
the  addresses  of  the  committee  ;  on  vote  being  taken 
the  substitute  was  lost,  the  original  motion  as  introduced 
by  Mr.  Chipley  was  adopted.  The  following  invitation 
of  the  Manhattan  Club  was  unanimously  accepted  : 

MANHATTAN  CLUB,  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel,  July  19th,  1892. 

DEAR  SIR: — The  Manhattan  Club  desires  to  invite  through  you,  the  members 
of  the  Notification  Committee  and  their  friends  to  a  reception  to  be  given  at  the 
Club  House,  Wednesday  evening,  20th  inst.,  immediately  after  the  ceremonies  at 
Madison  Square  Garden. 

Signed, 

D.  P.  GILLETT,  Secretary. 
NICHOLAS  M.  BELL,  ESQ., 

Secretary  of  the  Committee  of  Notification, 

Fifth  Avenue  Hotel. 

The  following  resolution  was  offered  by  Mr.  Cullop, 
of  Indiana,  and  adopted  : 

WHEREAS,  At  the  National  Democratic  Convention,  at  Chicago, 
a  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  expressing  sympathy  with 
Hon.  James  G.  Blaine  in  his  late  sad  bereavement ;" 

Therefore  be  it  Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  the  Convention 
and  of  this  committee  cause  to  be  prepared  an  engrossed  certified 
copy  of  said  resolution,  signed  by  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of 
the  Convention  and  the  chairman  of  this  committee,  and  transmit  the 
same  to  the  Hon.  James  G.  Blaine. 


218  APPENDIX. 

The  following-  resolution  was  offered  by  Mr.  R. 
Rhodes,  of  Alabama,  and  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  committee  be  tendered  to  the 
chairman,  Hon.  W.  L.  Wilson,  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  the  sec- 
retary, Nicholas  M.  Bell,  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  for  the  courtesies 
extended  to  the  committee,  and  further 

Resolved,  That  the  secretary  be  requested  to  have  an  additional 
copy  of  the  Platform,  engrossed  and  bound  in  the  same  manner  as 
the  copies  already  prepared  for  Mr.  Cleveland  and  Mr.  Stevenson, 
and  presented  to  the  Hon.  W.  L.  Wilson,  Chairman  of  the  Conven- 
tion and  chairman  of  the  committee,  as  a  compliment  from  the 
committee. 

Upon  motion  of  Hon.  Kope  Elias,  of  North  Caro- 
lina, the  committee  adjourned,  to  meet  at  8  o'clock  P.M., 
to  attend  the  ceremonies  at  Madison  Square  Garden. 

The  Committee,  at  8  o'clock,  met  on  platform  at 
Madison  Square  Garden,  and  in  the  presence  of  fifteen 
thousand  enthusiastic  Democrats,  and  under  circum- 
stances without  precedent  in  political  annals,  Grover 
Cleveland  and  Adlai  E.  Stevenson  were  officially  in- 
formed of  their  nominations  for  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States. 

The  following  address  was  read  by  Hon.  Nicholas 
M.  Bell,  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Notification  : 

Grover  Cleveland,  New  York  : 

As  members  of  the  Notification  Committee  delegated  by  the  Xa» 
tional  Democratic  Convention,  which  assembled  in  Chicago,  June 
21,  it  is  our  agreeable  duty  to  inform  you  that  upon  a  single  ballot 
you  were  unanimously  nominated  for  the  Presidency  of  the  United 
States. 

Nothing  could  evince  the  affection  and  confidence  in  which  you 
are  held  by  the  Democratic  party  more  positively  than  the  fact  that 
you  have  three  times  been  made  its  candidate  for  that  office.  Your 
devotion  to  the  principles  of  the  party  of  Thomas  Jefferson,  your 


APPENDIX.  219 

courageous,  conservative  and  exemplary  administration  when  the 
Chief  Executive  of  the  United  States,  and  the  prosperity  of  the 
country  under  that  administration,  have  won  for  you  the  respect  of 
every  citizen. 

In  the  maintenance  of  the  doctrines  which  you  have  so  clearly 
expounded  and  so  consistently  advocated,  and  which  form  the  basis 
of  the  declaration  of  principles  formulated  by  the  Democratic  Con- 
vention which  has  again  placed  you  in  nomination,  rests  the  hope 
of  the  people  for  constitutional  government.  They  turn  now  to  the 
Democratic  party,  that  the  blessings  of  civic  and  industrial  liberty 
may  be  secured  to  them,  and  in  response  to  the  people's  demand 
that  party  has  chosen  for  its  leader  him  whose  public  record  con- 
veys the  guarantee  that  the  will  of  the  people  will  not  be  thwarted. 

It  is,  then,  not  only  with  a  sense  of  profound  personal  satisfac- 
tion, but  also  with  the  assurance  that  your  nomination  is  welcomed 
by  every  man  who  feels  the  burden  of  unjust  taxation,  and  the  dis- 
tress of  unwarranted  legislative  interference  with  the  rights  of  the 
citizen,  that  we  inform  you  of  the  action  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention,  and  submit  herewith  its  declaration  of  principles. 

Firmly  believing  that  there  is  no  other  safe  repository  for  the 
liberties  of  the  people  and  the  welfare  of  the  nation  than  the  hands 
of  a  Democratic  administration,  we  most  heartily  congratulate  the 
country  upon  the  opportunity  presented  by  your  candidacy  for  a 
return  to  the  methods  and  measures  of  that  party  which  has  ad- 
ministered and  will  ever  administer  the  Government  for  the  good 
of  our  country  and  in  the  interests  of  the  entire  people. 

That  our  cause — the  people's  cause — will  triumph  we  have  no 
doubt,  and,  judging  the  future  by  the  past,  the  administration  which 
you  will  give  to  the  people  of  the  United  States  will  be  directed  by 
wisdom,  statesmanship,  integrity  and  patriotism,  and  will  cause 
your  fellow  Democrats  to  regard  with  the  same  pride  and  pleasure 
your  future  career  as  President  of  this  great  republic  that  they  now 
enjoy  in  the  remembrance  of  your  former  administration. 

We  are,  sir,  respectfully  yours, 

WM.  L.  WILSON,  Chairman. 
NICHOLAS  M.  BELL,  Secretary. 

R.  N.  RHODES,  Alabama.  H.  R.  PARKER,  New  Hampshire. 

B.  R.  DAVIDSON,  Arkansas.  G.  H.  PARKER,  New  Jersey. 

STEPHEN  M.  WHITE,  California.      N.  E.  MACK,  New  York. 


220 


APPENDIX. 


FRANK  ADAMS,  Colorado. 

R.  J.  VANCE,  Connecticut. 

R.  J.  REYNOLDS,  Delaware. 

W.  D.  CHIPLEY,  Florida. 

J.  T.  RIPLET,  Georgia. 

G.  V.  BRYAN,  Idaho. 

T.  M.  THORNTON,  Illinois. 

W.  D.  CULLOP,  Indiana. 

L.  M.  MARTIN,  Iowa. 

J.  W.  ORR,  Kansas. 

J.  P.  SALYER,  Kentucky. 

A.  C RANDALL,  Louisiana. 

E.  C.  SWETT,  Maine. 

L.  V.  BAUGHMAN,  Maryland. 

P.  McGuiRE,  Massachusetts. 

R.  A.  MONTGOMERY,  Michigan. 

C.  M.  FOOTE,  Minnesota. 

W.  V.  SULLIVAN,  Mississippi. 

J.  W.  WALKER,  Missouri. 

S.  P.  HAUSEN,  Montana. 

J.  A.  CREIGHTON,  Nebraska. 


KOPE  ELIAS,  North  Carolina. 
ANDREW  BLEWETT,  North  Dakota. 
R.  R.  HOLDEN,  Ohio. 
HENRY  BLACKMAN,  Oregon. 
HENRY  COCHRAN,  Pennsylvania. 
F.  E.  BARTLETT,  Rhode  Island. 
T.  D.  JERVEY,  JR.,  South  Carolina. 
W.  A.  COLLIER,  Tennessee. 
J.  H.  McLEARY,  Texas. 

A.  FULKENSON,  Virginia. 
O.  C.  MILLER,  Vermont. 
J.  COLLINS,  Washington. 

B.  F.  MARTIN,  West  Virginia. 
JAMES  BORDEN,  Wisconsin. 
R.  H.  HOMER,  Wyoming. 

J.  SHEAKLEY,  Alaska. 

E.  E.  ELLINWOOD,  Arizona. 

HENRY  E.  DAVIS,  Dist.  Columbia. 

E.  V.  LANG,  New  Mexico. 

H.  P.  HENDERSON,  Utah. 

MR.  JACKSON,  Indian  Territory. 


C.  W.  HINCHCLIFFE,  Nevada. 

Speech  of  Hon.  Wm.  L.  Wilson,  Chairman  of  the 
Notification  Committee  of  the  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention, notifying  Mr.  Cleveland  of  his  nomination,  in 
Madison  Square  Garden,  New  York,  July  20,  1892. 


Mr.  Cleveland : 

We  bring  you,  to-night,  a  message  from  the  Democratic  party. 
We  come  as  a  Committee  of  its  National  Convention,  representing 
every  Democratic  constituency  in  the  country,  to  give  you  official 
notification  that  you  have  been  chosen  as  its  candidate  for  the  office 
of  President  of  the  United  States. 

We  are  also  charged  with  the  duty  of  presenting  you  the  platform 
of  principles  adopted  by  that  Convention.  This  platform  contains 
a  full  and  explicit  declaration  of  the  position  of  the  National  Dem- 
ocratic party  on  the  great  political  issues  of  the  day  ;  but  in  all  its 
utterances  it  is  merely  a  development  of  one  great  principle,  that 


APPENDIX.  221 

whatever  governments  and  laws  can  do  for  a  people  must  be  done 
for  all  the  people,  without  precedence  of  section  or  grades  of  citi- 
zenship. 

We  believe  that  a  government  administered  in  this  spirit,  in  such 
a  country  as  ours,  will  secure  a  larger  measure  of  freedom  and  pros- 
perity to  its  own  people  than  has  heretofore  been  possible  in  the 
world,  and  that  it  will  be  an  example  and  an  inspiration  to  all  other 
people.  To  make  and  keep  ours  such  a  government — to  guard  with 
jealous  care  the  rights  of  equal  citizenship — to  bear  our  freedom 
safely  along  the  march  of  our  material  progress,  unharmed  by  the 
mighty  agencies  that  minister  to  that  progress — is  the  high  and  glo- 
rious duty  of  the  Democratic  party;  a  duty  that  commits  it  to  never 
ending  warfare  with  the  strongest  and  most  enduring  forces  of  hu- 
man nature — the  lust  of  power  and  the  lust  of  greed.  These  are  the 
forces  that  in  all  other  ages,  and  in  almost  all  other  lands,  have  put 
down  freedom  and  brought  government  under  their  control,  and 
that  are  seeking  in  our  own  land  to  add  a  greater  victory  and  a 
richer  prize  to  all  the  triumphs  of  the  past. 

It  is  a  dangerous  thing  for  a  political  party  to  continue  its  exist- 
ence after  the  work  which  called  it  into  being  has  been  accomplished. 
It  will  inevitably  pass  as  the  political  organization  against  which  we 
contend  has  already  passed,  into  the  "service  of  the  great  special 
interests  which  everywhere  strive  to  secure  political  power  for  their 
own  advantage.  Of  the  present  policies  of  that  party  it  may  truly  be 
said  that  they  all  tend  to  the  centralization  of  political  power  in  the 
Federal  Government  and  the  centralization  of  wealth  in  favored 
classes.  Against  both  tendencies  we  fight,  as  against  enemies  of  our 
freedom.  We  believe  that  the  opportunities  of  material  prosperity 
which  our  country  offers,  as  never  before  in  human  history,  are  a 
part  of  that  freedom,  not  to  be  staked  on  the  issue  of  political  bat- 
tles, or  made  the  booty  of  party  victories.  The  wealth  that  all  may 
gain  is  not  a  menace  but  a  strong  buttress  to  free  government.  All 
men  will  protect  what  all  may  hope  to  acquire  as  the  open  prizes  of 
industry,  thrift  and  intelligence.  But  the  wealth  that  comes  from 
control  and  perversion  of  the  power  of  taxation,  that  is  gathered  by 
unjust  laws  from  the  labor  of  the  people,  is  a  source  of  rightful  dis- 
content and  a  growing  peril  to  our  freedom.  As  guardians  of  that 
freedom  we  plant  ourselves  upon  the  principle  that  the  necessities 
of  government  are  the  beginning,  and  the  necessities  of  government 
are  the  ending  of  just  taxation.  Whatever  goes  beyond  this 


222  APPENDIX. 

increases  the  power  of  government  at  the  expense  of  the  liberties  of 
the  people.  The  government  that  deals  with  the  citizen  at  long 
range,  and,  through  officials  not  chosen  by  himself,  will  become  his 
master ;  the  government  that  is  carried  on  beneath  his  own  eye,  by 
his  own  chosen  servants,  and  within  reach  of  his  own  regulating  and 
punishing  arm,  that  government  can  be  kept  his  servant. 

Yet  we  have  but  recently  and  barely  escaped  a  successful  effort  to 
strike  down  the  government  that  stands  nearest  the  citizen,  and  to 
strip  from  the  people  in  the  States  that  right  preservative  of  all 
other  rights,  the  right  of  holding  their  own  elections  and  of  choos- 
ing their  own  representatives. 

Such,  sir,  are  some  of  the  issues  of  the  campaign  on  which  we  are 
about  to  enter.  They  go  to  the  foundation  of  our  liberty.  In  this 
great  contest  your  party  has  summoned  you  to  be  its  leader.  Four 
years  ago,  in  the  mid-career  of  a  service  that  well  deserved  the  high- 
est honors  your  countrymen  could  bestow,  as  we  feel  sure  that  it 
will  receive  the  highest  encomiums  that  history  can  award,  you  were 
struck  down  because  as  a  Democrat  you  could  make  no  terms  with 
those  who  wished  to  plunder  the  people's  treasury,  or  those  who 
sought  to  perpetuate  the  passions  of  civil  strife.  Your  countrymen 
will  right  that  wrong.  They  will  do  it  not  for  your  sake  alone,  but 
for  their  own  sake  and  the  sake  of  the  Republic.  They  have  seen  the 
fruits  of  that  defeat  in  many  forms  of  misgovernment.  With  an 
overflowing  treasury  they  have  seen  taxes  increased  on  the  necessa- 
ries of  life  and  the  necessaries  of  labor,  because  private  interests 
demanded  it.  They  have  seen  that  overflowing  treasury  emptied 
by  extravagant  expenditures  and  tricks  of  book-keeping  resorted  to 
to  hide  its  emptiness  from  the  people.  They  have  seen  an  attempt 
to  turn  the  gratitude  of  a  great  Nation  into  an  electioneering  fund  for 
a  political  party,  and  service  to  that  party  in  the  conflicts  of  peace 
counts  for  more  than  service  to  the  country  in  the  conflicts  of  war. 
They  have  seen  the  Federal  administration  passionately  attempt  to 
destroy  free  elections  in  the  States.  They  have  seen  the  influence 
of  our  Government  in  its  diplomatic  and  naval  service  thrown 
without  rebuke  against  freedom  and  in  favor  of  despotism  in  a 
struggling  sister  republic.  And  seeing  all  this  they  have  lost  no 
opportunity  in  the  past  four  years  to  honor  your  administration  by 
laying  the  heavy  hand  of  punishment  upon  those  who  have  thus  de- 
parted from  its  spirit  and  its  policies. 


APPENDIX.  223 

And  now,  sir,  we  put  into  your  hands  the  commission  of  which  we 
are  bearers.  It  is  the  highest  honor  your  party  can  bestow.  It  is 
the  gravest  call  to  duty  your  fellow  Democrats  can  make.  But  we 
believe  that  we  can  assure  you  that  there  are  no  "  weak,  weary  or 
despondent  Democrats  "  in  the  ranks  of  our  party  to-day,  and  that 
with  the  people's  cause  as  our  cause,  you  will  lead  us  to  a  victory 
in  which  the  principles  of,  our  party  shall  gloriously  triumph,  and 
the  welfare  of  our  country  shall  be  mightily  promoted. 

Mr.  Cleveland  replied  as  follows  : 

Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen — The  message  you  deliver  from 
the  National  Democracy  arouses  within  me  emotions  which  would 
be  well  nigh  overwhelming  if  I  did  not  recognize  here  assembled 
the  representatives  of  a  great  party  who  must  share  with  me  the 
responsibility  your  mission  invites.  I  find  much  relief  in  the  reflec- 
tion that  I  have  been  selected  merely  to  stand  for  the  principles  and 
purposes  to  which  my  party  is  pledged,  and  for  the  enforcement  and 
supremacy  of  which  all  who  have  any  right  to  claim  Democratic  fel- 
lowship must  constantly  and  persistently  labor. 

Our  party  responsibility  is  indeed  great.  We  assume  a  momen- 
tous obligation  to  our  countrymen  when,  in  return  for  their  trust 
and  confidence,  we  promise  them  a  rectification  of  their  wrongs  and 
a  better  realization  of  the  advantages  which  are  due  to  them  under 
our  free  and  beneficent  institutions. 

But,  if  our  responsibility  is  great,  our  party  is  strong.  It  is  strong 
in  its  sympathy  with  the  needs  of  the  people,  in  its  insistence  upon 
the  exercise  of  governmental  powers  strictly  within  the  constitu- 
tional permission  the  people  have  granted,  and  in  its  willingness  to 
risk  its  life  and  hope  upon  the  people's  intelligence  and  patriotism. 

Never  has  a  great  party,  intent  upon  the  promotion  of  right  and 
justice,  had  better  incentive  for  effort  than  is  now  presented  to  us. 

Turning  our  eyes  to  the  plain  people  of  the  land,  we  see  them 
burdened  as  consumers  with  a  tariff  system  that  unjustly  and  re- 
lentlessly demands  from  them  in  the  purchase  of  the  necessaries 
and  comforts  of  life,  an  amount  scarcely  met  by  the  wages  of  hard 
and  steady  toil — while  the  exactions  thus  wrung  from  them  build  up 
and  increase  the  fortunes  of  those  for  whose  benefit  this  injustice  is 
perpetuated. 


224  APPENDIX. 

We  see  the  farmer  listening  to  a  delusive  story  that  fills  his  mind 
with  visions  of  advantage,  while  his  pocket  is  robbed  by  the  stealthy 
hand  of  high  protection. 

Our  workingmen  are  still  told  the  tale,  oft  repeated  in  spite  of  its 
demonstrated  falsity,  that  the  existing  protective  tariff  is  a  boon  to 
them,  and  that  under  its  beneficent  operation  their  wages  must  in- 
crease, while,  as  they  listen,  scenes  are  enacted  in  the  very  abiding 
place  of  high  protection  that  mock  the  hopes  of  toil  and  attest  the 
tender  mercy  the  workingman  receives  from  those  made  selfish  and 
sordid  by  unjust  governmental  favoritism. 

We  oppose  earnestly  and  stubbornly  the  theory  upon  which  our 
opponents  seek  to  justify  and  uphold  existing  tariff  laws.  We  need 
not  base  our  attack  upon  questions  of  constitutional  permission  or 
legislative  power.  We  denounce  this  theory  upon  the  highest  pos- 
sible grounds  when  we  contend  that  in  present  conditions  its  opera- 
tion is  unjust  and  that  laws  enacted  in  accordance  with  it  are 
inequitable  and  unfair. 

Ours  is  not  a  destructive  party.  We  are  not  at  enmity  with  the 
rights  of  any  of  our  citizens.  All  are  our  countrymen.  We  are  not 
recklessly  heedless  of  any  American  interests,  nor  will  we  abandon 
our  regard  for  them ;  but  invoking  the  love  of  fairness  and  justice 
which  belongs  to  true  Americanism,  and  upon  which  our  constitu- 
tion rests,  we  insist  that  no  plan  of  tariff  legislation  shall  be  toler- 
ated which  has  for  its  object  and  purpose  a  forced  contribution  from 
the  earnings  and  income  of  the  mass  of  our  citizens,  to  swell  directly 
the  accumulations  of  a  favored  few  ;  nor  will  we  permit  a  pretended 
solicitude  for  American  labor,  or  any  other  specious  pretext  of  be- 
nevolent care  for  others,  to  blind  the  eyes  of  the  people  to  the 
selfish  schemes  of  those  who  seek,  through  the  aid  of  unequal  tariff 
laws,  to  gain  unearned  and  unreasonable  advantages  at  the  expense 
of  their  fellows. 

We  have  also  assumed,  in  our  covenant  with  those  whose  support 
we  invite,  the  duty  of  opposing  to  the  death  another  avowed  scheme 
of  our  adversaries,  which,  under  the  guise  of  protecting  the  suffrage, 
covers,  but  does  not  conceal,  a  design  thereby  to  perpetuate  the  power 
of  a  party  afraid  to  trust  its  continuance  to  the  untrammeled  and 
intelligent  votes  of  the  American  people.  We  are  pledged  to  resist 
the  legislation  intended  to  complete  this  scheme,  because  we  have 


APPENDIX.  225 

not  forgotten  the  saturnalia  of  theft  and  brutal  control  which  fol- 
lowed another  Federal  regulation  of  State  suffrage ;  because  we 
know  that  the  managers  of  a  party  which  did  not  scruple  to  rob  the 
people  of  a  President  would  not  hesitate  to  use  the  machinery  cre- 
ated by  such  legislation  to  revive  corrupt  instrumentalities  for  par- 
tisan purposes ;  because  an  attempt  to  enforce  such  legislation 
would  rekindle  animosities  where  peace  and  hopefulness  now  pre- 
vail ;  because  such  an  attempt  would  replace  prosperous  activity 
with  discouragement  and  dread  throughout  a  large  section  of  our 
country,  and  would  menace,  everywhere  in  the  land,  the  rights  re- 
served to  the  States  and  to  the  people,  which  underlie  the  safe- 
guards of  American  liberty. 

I  shall  not  attempt  to  specify  at  this  time  other  objects  and  aims 
of  Democratic  endeavor  which  add  inspiration  to  our  mission.  True 
to  its  history  and  its  creed,  our  party  will  respond  to  the  wants  of 
the  people  within  safe  lines  and  guided  by  enlightened  statesman- 
ship. To  the  troubled  and  impatient  within  our  membership  we 
commend  continued,  unswerving  allegiance  to  the  party  whose  prin- 
ciples in  all  times  past  have  been  found  sufficient  for  them,  and 
whose  aggregate  wisdom  and  patriotism,  their  experience  teaches, 
can  always  be  trusted. 

In  a  tone  of  partisanship  which  befits  the  occasion,  let  me  say  to 
you,  as  equal  partners  in  the  campaign  upon  which  we  to-day  enter, 
that  the  personal  fortunes  of  those  to  whom  you  have  intrusted 
your  banners  are  only  important  as  they  are  related  to  the  fate  of 
the  principles  they  represent  and  to  the  party  which  they  lead. 

I  cannot,  therefore,  forbear  reminding  you  and  all  those  attached 
to  the  Democrotic  party  or  supporting  the  principles  which  we  pro- 
fess that  defeat  in  the  pending  campaign,  followed  by  the  consum- 
mation of  the  legislative  schemes  our  opponents  contemplate,  and 
accompanied  by  such  other  incidents  of  their  success  as  might  more 
firmly  fix  their  power,  would  present  a  most  discouraging  outlook 
for  future  Democratic  supremacy  and  for  the  accomplishment  of  the 
objects  we  have  at  heart. 

Moreover,  every  sincere  Democrat  must  believe  that  the  interests 
of  this  country  are  deeply  involved  in  the  victory  of  our  party  in 
the  struggle  that  awaits  us.  Thus  patriotic  solicitude  exalts  the 
hope  of  partisanship,  and  should  intensify  our  determination  to  win 
success. 


226  APPENDIX. 

This  success  can  only  be  achieved  by  systematic  and  intelligent 
effort  on  the  part  of  all  enlisted  in  our  cause.  Let  us  tell  the  people 
plainly  and  honestly  what  we  believe  and  how  we  propose  to  serve 
the  interests  of  the  entire  country,  and  then  let  us,  after  the  manner 
of  true  Democracy,  rely  upon  the  thoughtfulness  and  patriotism  of 
our  fellow  countrymen. 

It  only  remains  for  me  to  say  to  you,  in  advance  of  a  more  formal 
response  to  your  message,  that  I  obey  the  command  of  my  party, 
and  confidently  anticipate  that  an  intelligent  and  earnest  presen- 
tation of  our  cause  will  insure  a  popular  endorsement  of  the  action 
of  the  body  you  represent. 

Ex-Gov.  Stephen  M.  White,  of  California,  delivered 
the  following  address  to  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  the  nomi- 
nee for  Vice- President  : 

Mr.  Stevenson  : — 

• 

The  Democratic  party,  recognizing  your  worth  and  popularity, 
has  selected  you  as  its  candidate  for  Vice-President  of  the  United 
States,  and  this  committee,  in  obedience  to  the  instructions  of  the 
National  Convention,  by  which  it  was  appointed,  is  present  to  notify 
you  of  your  nomination. 

The  circumstances  attending  the  conferring  of  this  honor  are  such 
as  to  augment  the  gratification  which,  in  any  event,  would  accom- 
pany the  discharge  of  the  duty  which  we  are  here  to  perform.  The 
great  organization  in  whose  battles  for  the  public  welfare  you  have 
borne  so  conspicuous  a  part  has  emphatically  manifested  its  unfal- 
tering approval  of  the  enlightened  and  progressive  administration 
with  which  you  were  for  four  years  prominently  identified.  That 
period  of  our  country's  history  has  been  compared  by  the  American 
people  with  the  record  of  the  Presidential  term  which  is  approach- 
ing completion.  To  the  contrast  thus  appearing  the  Democracy 
turns  proudly  and  with  confidence. 

This  is  an  intelligent  and  a  patriotic  people.  Intelligence  and 
patriotism,  guided  by  experience,  must  enable  us  to  learn  the  truth 
with  reference  to  partisan  professions,  and  to  accurately  determine 
the  various  effects  of  divergent  political  policies.  Time  has  furnished 
ample  opportunity  to  study  all  pending  questions  of  importance, 


APPENDIX.  227 

and  a  general  sentiment  resulting  from  more  thorough  education 
protests  against  an  extravagant  and  partial  tariff;  against  Federal 
control  of  elections ;  demands  governmental  reform,  and  insures 
Democratic  victory. 

Candid  in  our  platform,  rejoicing  in  the  character  and  statesman- 
ship of  our  chosen  leaders,  conscious  of  the  honesty  and  ability  of 
those  upon  whose  suffrages  we  must  rely,  we  are  prepared  and 
anxious  to  meet  the  issue.  We  have  nothing  to  fear,  and  can  have 
nothing  to  regret. 

The  unanimous  expression  of  the  committee  will  be  presented  by 
Hon.  Nicholas  M.  Bell,  its  secretary. 

THE    COMMITTEE    TO    MR.  STEVENSON. 

Mr.  Bell  then  read  the  formal  notification  to  Mr.  Ste- 
venson, as  follows  : 

Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  Illinois : — The  National  Democratic  Con- 
vention, which  assembled  in  Chicago,  June  21,  has  directed  us,  the 
members  of  the  Notification  Committee,  to  inform  you  of  your  nom- 
ination upon  the  first  ballot  by  that  Convention  for  the  Vice- 
Presidency  of  the  United  States. 

We  are  able  to  assure  you  that  the  honor  has  been  conferred 
because  the  Democratic  party  has  recognized  in  you  a  leader  whose 
every  public  act  has  strengthened  the  party  in  the  respect  of  the 
people.  As  an  officer  of  the  administration,  as  a  pleader  for  Dem- 
ocratic principles,  as  a  statesman  who  has  sought  to  protect  all  the 
people  in  all  their  risks,  you  have  long  enjoyed  the  esteem  of  your 
immediate  constituents  and  the  confidence  of  the  country  at  large. 

The  declaration  of  principles  formulated  by  the  Convention  which 
has  placed  you  in  nomination  is  herewith  submitted,  and  it  will,  we 
have  every  reason  to  believe,  from  your  public  and  private  utter- 
ances, meet  with  your  approval  and  invite  your  zealous  advocacy. 

The  mission  which  has  been  intrusted  to  us  has  been  made  all 
the  more  agreeable  by  the  fact  that  your  nomination  has  been  re- 
ceived by  the  public  with  the  most  cordial  approbation. 

In  the  high  office  for  which  you  have  been  named  by  the  unani- 
mous voice  of  the  National  Democracy,  there  will  be  called  into 


228  APPENDIX. 

exercise  those  virtues  and  abilities  which  have  ever  marked  your 
participation  in  the  affairs  of  State.  That  you  will  employ  them  to 
the  satisfaction  of  your  party  and  your  country,  your  past  service 
to  the  people  affords  the  unquestionable  guarantee. 

In  advising  you  of  the  action  of  the  Convention,  we  beg  to  con- 
vey the  assurances  of  our  personal  respect  and  good  will. 
We  are,  sir, 

Yours  respectfully, 

W.  L.  WILSON,  Chairman. 
NICHOLAS  M.  BELL,  Secretary. 

R.  N.  RHODES,  Alabama.  B.  R.  DAVIDSON,  Arkansas. 
STEPHEN  M.  WHITE,  California.     FRANK  ADAMS,  Colorado. 

R.  J.  VANCE,  Connecticut.  R.  J.  REYNOLDS,  Delaware. 

W.  D.  CHIPLEY,  Florida.  '  G.  V.  BRYAN,  Idaho. 

J.  T.  RIPLET,  Georgia.  T.  M.  THORNTON,  Illinois. 

W.  D.  CULLOP,  Indiana.  L.  M.  MARTIN,  Iowa. 

J.  W.  ORR,  Kansas.  J.  P.  SALYER,  Kentucky. 

A.  CRANDALL,  Louisiana.  E.  C.  SWETT,  Maine. 

L.  V.  BAUGHMAN,  Maryland.  P.  McGuiRE,  Massachusetts. 

R.  A.  MONTGOMERY,  Michigan.  C.  M.  FOOTE,  Minnesota. 

W.  V.  SULLIVAN,  Mississippi.  J.  W.  WALKER,  Missouri. 

S.  P.  HAUSEN,  Montana.  J.  A.  CREIGHTON,  Nebraska. 

C.  W.  HINCHCLIFFE,  Nevada.  H.  R.  PARKER,  New  Hampshire. 

G.  H.  BARKER,  New  Jersey.  N.  E.  MACK,  New  York. 

KOPE  ELIAS,  North  Carolina.  ANDREW  BLEWETT,  North  Dakota. 

R.  R.  HOLDEN,  Ohio.  HENRY  BLACKMAN,  Oregon. 

HENRY  COCHRAN,  Pennsylvania.  F.  E.  BARTLETT,  Rhode  Island. 

T.  D.  JERVEY,  JR.,  South  Carolina.  W.  A.  COLLIER,  Tennessee. 

J.  H.  MCLEARY,  Texas.  A.  FULKENSON,  Virginia. 

O.  C.  MILLER,  Vermont.  J.  COLLINS,  Washington. 

B.  F.  MARTIN,  West  Virginia.  JAMES  BORDEN,  Wisconsin. 
R.  H.  HOMER,  Wyoming.  J.  SHEAKLEY,  Alaska. 

E.  E.  ELLINWOOD,  Arizona.  HENRY  E.  DAVIS,  Dist.  of  Columb. 

E.  V.  LANG,  New  Mexico.  H.  P.  HENDERSON,  Utah. 

Reply  of  Hon.  A.  E.  Stevenson  to  the  address  of 
Notification  of  his  nomination  as  the  Democratic  candi- 
date for  Vice- President. 

Mr.  Chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Committee  : — I  cannot  too 
earnestly  express  my  appreciation  of  the  honor  conferred  upon  me 


APPENDIX.  229 

by  the  great  delegated  assembly  which  you  officially  represent.  To 
have  been  selected  by  the  National  Democratic  Convention  as  its 
candidate  for  high  office,  is  a  distinction  of  which  any  citizen  might 
well  be  proud.  I  should  do  violence  to  my  own  feelings,  sir,  should  I 
fail  to  express  my  gratitude  for  the  courteous  terms  in  which  you 
have  advised  me  of  the  result  of  the  deliberations  of  the  Convention. 

Distrusting  my  capacity  fully  to  meet  the  expectations  of  those 
who  have  honored  me  by  their  confidence,  I  accept  the  nomination 
so  generously  tendered.  Should  the  action  of  the  Chicago  Con- 
vention receive  the  approval  of  the  people,  I  shall,  to  the  best  of 
my  humble  ability,  discharge  with  fidelity  the  duties  of  the  impor- 
tant trust  confided  to  me. 

Reference  has  been  made  in  terms  of  commendation  to  the  late 
Democratic  administration.  Identified  in  some  measure  in  an 
important  branch  of  the  public  service  with  that  administration,  I 
am  gratified  to  know  that  it  has  in  so  marked  a  degree  received  the 
endorsement  of  the  Democratic  party  in  its  National  Convention. 
I  am  pursuaded  that  intelligent  discussion  of  the  issues  involved  in 
the  pending  contest  for  political  supremacy,  will  result  in  victory 
to  the  party  which  stands  for  honest  methods  in  government, 
economy  in  public  expenditures,  and  relief  to  the  people  from  the 
burdens  of  unjust  taxation. 

I  am  not  unmindful,  Mr.  Chairman,  of  the  grave  responsibilities 
which  attach  to  the  great  office  for  which  I  have  been  named.  I 
may  be  pardoned  for  quoting  in  this  connection  the  words  of  the 
honored  patriot,  Thomas  A.  Hendricks,  when  officially  informed 
that  he  had  been  designated  by  his  party  for  the  Vice-Presidency 
in  1884.  He  said: 

"  I  know  that  sometimes  it  is  understood  that  this  particular  office 
does  not  involve  much  responsibility,  and  as  a  general  rule  that  is 
so.  But  sometimes  it  comes  to  represent  very  great  responsibilities 
and  it  may  be  so  in  the  near  future.  The  two  parties  in  the  Senate 
being  so  nearly  evenly  divided,  the  Vice- President  may  have  to 
decide  upon  questions  of  law  by  the  exercise  of  the  casting  vote. 
The  responsibility  would  then  become  very  great.  It  would  not 
then  be  the  responsibility  of  representing  a  District  or  a  State.  It 
would  be  the  responsibility  of  representing  the  whole  country,  and 
the  obligation  would  be  to  the  judgment  of  the  whole  country. 
And  that  vote  when  thus  cast  should  be  in  obedience  to  the  just 
expectations  and  requirements  of  the  people  of  the  United  States." 


230  APPENDIX. 

Should  it  please  my  countrymen  to  call  me  to  this  office,  the  high 
appreciation  of  its  dignity  and  of  its  responsibilities — as  expressed 
in  the  utterances  and  illustrated  in  the  public  life  of  the  eminent 
statesman  whom  I  have  mentioned — will  be  a  light  to  my  own  path- 
way. 

In  the  contest  upon  which  we  now  enter  we  make  no  appeal  to 
the  passions,  but  to  the  sober  judgment  of  the  people.  We  believe 
that  the  welfare  of  the  toiling  millions  of  our  countrymen  is  bound 
up  in  the  success  of  the  Democratic  party.  Recent  occurrences  in 
a  neighboring  State  have  sadly  emphasized  the  fact  that  a  high  pro- 
tective tariff  affords  no  protection,  and  tends  in  no  way  to  better 
the  condition  of  those  who  earn  their  bread  by  daily  toil. 

Believing  in  the  right  of  every  voter  to  cast  his  ballot  unawed  by 
power,  the  Democratic  party  will  steadily  oppose  all  legislation 
which  threatens  to  imperil  that  right  by  the  interposition  of  Federal 
bayonets  at  the  polls. 

In  a  more  formal  manner,  hereafter,  Mr.  Chairman,  I  will  indicate 
by  letter  my  acceptance  of  the  nomination  tendered  me  by  the 
National  Democratic  Convention,  and  will  give  expression  to  my 
views  touching  the  important  questions  enunciated  in  its  platform. 

Secretary  Nicholas  M.  Bell,  on  behalf  of  the  com- 
mittee, presented  Mr.  Cleveland  and  Mr.  Stevenson  with 
a  handsome  sealskin  portfolio,  which  contained  the 
formal  address  of  notification,  neatly  engrossed,  and 
signed  by  every  member  of  the  Notification  Committee. 
Besides  the  address,  it  contained  an  engrossed  copy  of 
the  Chicago  platform,  bound  in  white  buckskin,  and  em- 
bellished with  gold. 

On  completion  of  the  notification  ceremonies,  the 
Notification  Committee,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Cleveland, 
Mr.  Stevenson,  the  National  Democratic  Committee,  and 
a  large  number  of  prominent  Democrats,  proceeded  to 
the  Manhattan  Club  reception. 


APPENDIX. 


231 


PROCEEDINGS  OF  THE  LOCAL  COMMITTEE 

OF  NEW  YORK  CITY, 

IN  REGARD  TO  THE  CEREMONIES  OF  NOTIFICATION. 


A  number  of  Democrats  of  the  City  of  New  York  had 
been  called  together  by  the  Hon.  William  C.  Whitney, 
Hon.  John  T.  Agnew  and  Hon.  Hugh  J.  Grant,  Mayor 
of  the  City,  to  form  a  Local  Committee  to  act  in  con- 
junction with  the  Notification  Committee  in  the  matter 
of  the  notification  proceedings.  The  gentlemen  so 
called  were  Messrs. — 


John  H.  V.  Arnold, 
¥.  R.  Coudert, 
John  M.  Bowers, 
Patrick  Divver, 
Charles  T.  Barney, 
Paul  Dana, 
Simon  Bernheimer, 
George  Ehret, 
Edward  Cooper, 
Charles  S.  Fairchild, 
J.  Sergeant  Cram, 
Elbridge  T.  Gerry, 
W.  Bourke  Cockran, 
Herman  Oelrichs, 
Henry  Hilton, 
O.  B.  Potter, 


George  C.  Clausen, 
E.  Ellery  Anderson, 
John  F.  Carroll, 
David  Banks, 
Henry  F.  Dimock, 
David  S.  Brown, 
Timothy  C.  Eastman, 
Franklin  Bartlett, 
Smith  Ely, 
James  S.  Coleman, 
Frank  T.  Fitzgerald, 
Richard  Croker, 
Thomas  F.  Gilroy, 
Rand.  Guggenheimer, 
James  H.  Parker, 
Louis  Heintz, 


John  T.  Agnew, 
Magrane  Coxe, 
Samuel  D.  Babcock, 
Peter  Doelger, 
Perry  Belmont, 
Franklin  Edson, 
C.  C.  Baldwin, 
James  Everard, 
John  C.  Calhoun, 
Ashbel  P.  Fitch, 
John  D.  Crimmins, 
Henry  Gunther, 
William  R.  Grace, 
Jos.  J.  O'Donoghue, 
George  Hoadly, 
Charles  B.  Peet, 


232 


APPENDIX. 


G.  G.  Haven, 
George  W.  Plunkitt, 
John  H.  Inman, 
John  Reilly, 
John  Kelly, 
Samuel  Spencer, 
Frank  R.  Lawrence, 
Ballard  Smith, 
Theodore  W.  Myers, 
Walter  Stanton, 
Cord  Meyer,  Jr. 
Nelson  Smith, 
David  McClure, 
Daniel  F.  McMahon, 
Martin  T.  McMahon, 
Jenkins  Van  Schaick, 
Delancey  Nicoll, 
Sidney  Webster. 


Henry  D.  Purroy, 
Edward  P.  Hagan, 
Herman  Ridder, 
Eugene  Kelly, 

E.  D.  Randolph, 
Joseph  J.  Little, 

F.  L.  Stetson, 
Arthur  Leary, 
Nathan  Straus, 
James  J.  Martin, 

J.  Edward  Simmons, 
Robert  Maclay, 
William  Salomon, 
Evan  Thomas. 
Henry  Villard, 
Eckstine  Norton, 
James  T.  Woodward, 


John  Hunter, 
Jacob  Ruppert, 

D.  Willis  James, 
Robert  B.  Roosevelt, 
Patrick  Keenan, 
James  Stillman, 
William  Lummis, 
John  C.  Sheehan, 
John  A.  McCall, 
Edward  Schell, 
Henry  G.  Marquand, 

E.  C.  Schaefer, 
Jordon  L.  Mott, 
William  P.  Thompson, 
H.  I.  Nicholas, 

John  R.  Voorhis, 
Benjamin  Wood, 


This  committee  met  at  the  Governor's  room,  in  the 
City  Hall,  on  the  12th  day  of  June,  1892.  It  organized 
by  electing  Samuel  D.  Babcock,  Esq.,  chairman,  and 
David  McClure,  Esq.,  secretary. 

\  committee  consisting  of  Messrs.  Whitney,  Grant, 
Babcock  and  McClure,  was  appointed  to  confer  with  the 
Sub-Committee  on  Notification.  This  sub-committee 
of  four  met  the  Sub-Committee  on  Notification,  and  it 
was  arranged  that  the  details  of  the  arrangements  as  to 
place  of  notification,  and  other  matters  connected  there- 
with, should  be  put  in  the  control  of  the  local  com- 
mittee. Thereupon,  the  latter  local  committee  provided 
Madison  Square  Garden  as  the  place  where  the  notifi- 
cation ceremony  should  take  place,  and  perfected  all 
arrangements  as  to  admission,  decorations  and  music. 
Admission  to  the  hall  was  free  to  all,  tickets  being  nec- 
essary only  for  the  stage,  the  capacity  of  which  was 
limited,  and  certain  of  the  boxes.  The  Manhattan  Club, 


APPENDIX.  233 

of  the  City  of  New  York,  through  the  Local  Committee, 
extended  an  invitation  to  Mr.  Cleveland  and  Mr.  Ste- 
venson, to  the  members  of  the  National  Committee  and 
to  the  Committee  on  Notification  to  attend  a  reception 
to  be  held  at  the  club  house  immediately  following  the 
notification  proceedings  at  Madison  Square  Garden. 

In  accordance  with  the  arrangements  made,  Mr. 
Cleveland  and  Mr.  Stevenson,  and  the  members  of  the 
Notification  and  National  Committees,  met  the  Recep- 
tion Committee  of  the  local  committee  at  the  Manhat- 
tan Club  at  8  o'clock  in  the  evening  of  July  20th.  Mr. 
Cleveland,  escorted  by  Messrs.  Samuel  D.  Babcock  and 
John  T.  Agnew,  and  the  members  of  the  Notification 
and  National  Committees  by  other  members  of  the  local 
Reception  Committee,  proceeded  to  Madison  Square 
Garden. 


234  APPENDIX. 


LETTER   OF   HON.  GROVER    CLEVELAND, 

ACCEPTING    THE    DEMOCRATIC   NOMINATION    FOR   THE    PRESIDENCY. 


To  Hon.  William  L.  Wilson,  and  others,  Committee,  etc.: 

GENTLEMEN — In  responding  to  your  formal  notification  of  my 
nomination  to  the  Presidency  by  the  National  Democracy,  I  hope  I 
may  be  permitted  to  say  at  the  outset  that  continued  reflection  and 
observation  have  confirmed  me  in  my  adherence  to  the  opinions, 
which  I  have  heretofore  plainly  and  publicly  declared,  touching  the 
questions  involved  in  the  canvass. 

This  is  a  time,  above  all  others,  when  these  questions  should  be 
considered  in  the  light  afforded  by  a  sober  apprehension  of  the 
principles  upon  which  our  government  is  based,  and  a  clear  under- 
standing of  the  relation  it  bears  to  the  people  for  whose  benefit  it 
was  created.  We  shall  thus  be  supplied  with  a  test  by  which  the 
value  of  any  proposition  relating  to  the  maintenance  and  adminis- 
tration of  our  government  can  be  ascertained,  and  by  which  the 
justice  and  honesty  of  every  political  question  can  be  judged.  If 
doctrines  or  theories  are  presented  which  do  not  satisfy  this  test, 
loyal  Americanism  must  pronounce  them  false  and  mischievous. 

The  protection  of  the  people  in  the  exclusive  use  and  enjoyment 
of  their  property  and  earnings,  concededly  constitutes  the  especial 
purpose  and  mission  of  our  free  government.  This  design  is  so 
interwoven  with  the  structure  of  our  plan  of  rule  that  failure  to 
protect  the  citizen  in  such  use  and  enjoyment,  or  their  unjustifiable 
diminution  by  the  government  itself,  is  a  betrayal  of  the  people's 
trust. 

We  have,  however,  undertaken  to  build  a  great  nation  upon  a  plan 
especially  our  own.  To  maintain  it  and  to  furnish  through  its 
agency  the  means  for  the  accomplishment  of  national  objects,  the 
American  people  are  willing  through  federal  taxation  to  surrender 
a  part  of  their  earnings  and  income. 


APPENDIX.  235 

Tariff  legislation  presents  a  familiar  form  of  federal  taxation. 
Such  legislation  results  as  surely  in  a  tax  upon  the  daily  life  of  our 
people  as  the  tribute  paid  directly  into  the  hand  of  the  tax-gatherer. 
We  feel  the  burden  of  these  tariff  taxes  too  palpably  to  be  persua- 
ded by  any  sophistry  that  they  do  not  exist,  or  are  paid  for  by 
foreigners. 

Such  taxes,  representing  a  diminution  of  the  property  rights  of 
the  people,  are  only  justifiable  when  laid  and  collected  for  the  pur- 
pose of  maintaining  our  government,  and  furnishing  the  means  for 
the  accomplishment  of  its  legitimate  purposes  and  functions.  This 
is  taxation  under  the  operation  of  a  tariff  for  revenue.  It  accords 
with  the  professions  of  American  free  institutions,  and  its  justice 
and  honesty  answer  the  test  supplied  by  a  correct  appreciation  of 
the  principles  upon  which  these  institutions  rest. 

This  theory  of  tariff  legislation  manifestly  enjoins  strict  economy 
in  public  expenditures  and  their  limitation  to  legitimate  public  uses, 
inasmuch  as  it  exhibits  as  absolute  extortion  any  exaction,  by  way 
of  taxation,  from  the  substance  of  the  people,  beyond  the  necessi- 
ties of  a  careful  and  proper  administration  of  government. 

Opposed  to  this  theory  the  dogma  is  now  boldly  presented,  that 
tariff  taxation  is  justifiable  for  the  express  purpose  and  intent  of 
thereby  promoting  especial  interests  and  enterprises.  Such  a  propo- 
sition is  so  clearly  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  our  constitution  and  so 
directly  encourages  the  disturbance  by  selfishness  and  greed  of 
patriotic  sentiment,  that  its  statement  would  rudely  shock  our 
people,  if  they  had  not  already  been  insidiously  allured  from  the 
safe  landmarks  of  principle.  Never  have  honest  desire  for  national 
growth,  patriotic  devotion  to  country,  and  sincere  regard  for  those 
who  toil,  been  so  betrayed  to  the  support  of  a  pernicious  doctrine. 
In  its  behalf,  the  plea  that  our  infant  industries  should  be  fostered, 
did  service  until  discredited  by  our  stalwart  growth  ;  then  followed 
the  exigencies  of  a  terrible  war  which  made  our  people  heedless  of 
the  opportunities  for  ulterior  schemes  afforded  by  their  willing  and 
patriotic  payment  of  unprecedented  tribute  ;  and  now,  after  a  long 
period  of  peace,  when  our  overburdened  countrymen  ask  for  relief 
and  a  restoration  to  a  fuller  enjoyment  of  their  incomes  and  earnings, 
they  are  met  by  the  claim  that  tariff  taxation  for  the  sake  of  pro- 
tection is  an  American  system,  the  continuance  of  which  is  necessary 
in  order  that  high  wages  may  be  paid  to  our  workingmen  and  a 
home  market  be  provided  for  our  farm  products. 


236  APPENDIX. 

These  pretenses  should  no  longer  deceive.  The  truth  is  that  such 
a  system  is  directly  antagonized  by  every  sentiment  of  justice  and 
fairness  of  which  Americans  are  pre-eminently  proud.  It  is  also 
true  that  while  our  workingmen  and  farmers  can,  the  least  of  all 
our  people,  defend  themselves  against  the  harder  home  life  which 
such  tariff  taxation  decrees,  the  workingman  suffering  from  the  im- 
portation and  employment  of  pauper  labor  instigated  by  his  pro- 
fessed friends,  and  seeking  security  for  his  interests  in  organized 
co-operation,  still  waits  for  a  division  of  the  advantages  secured  to 
his  employer  under  cover  of  a  generous  solicitude  for  his  wages, 
while  the  farmer  is  learning  that  the  prices  of  his  products  are  fixed 
in  foreign  markets,  where  he  suffers  from  a  competition  invited  and 
built  up  by  the  system  he  is  asked  to  support. 

The  struggle  for  unearned  advantage  at  the  doors  of  the  govern- 
ment tramples  on  the  rights  of  those  who  patiently  rely  upon 
assurances  of  American  equality.  Every  governmental  concession 
to  clamorous  favorites  invites  corruption  in  political  affairs  by  en- 
couraging the  expenditure  of  money  to  debauch  suffrage  in  support 
of  a  policy  directly  favorable  to  private  and  selfish  gain.  This  in 
the  end  must  strangle  patriotism  and  weaken  popular  confidence  in 
the  rectitude  of  republican  institutions. 

Though  the  subject  of  tariff  legislation  involves  a  question  of 
markets,  it  also  involves  a  question  of  morals.  We  cannot  with 
impunity  permit  injustice  to  taint  the  spirit  of  right  and  equity 
which  is  the  life  of  our  republic ;  and  we  shall  fail  to  reach  our 
national  destiny  if  greed  and  selfishness  lead  the  way. 

Recognizing  these  truths,  the  National  Democracy  will  seek  by 
the  application,  of  just  and  sound  principles  to  equalize  to  our 
people  the  blessings  due  them  from  the  government  they  support, 
to  promote  among  our  countrymen  a  closer  community  of  interests 
cemented  by  patriotism  and  national  pride,  and  to  point  out  a  fair 
field,  where  prosperous  and  diversified  American  enterprise  may 
grow  and  thrive  in  the  wholesome  atmosphere  of  American  industry, 
ingenuity  and  intelligence. 

Tariff  reform  is  still  our  purpose.  Though  we  oppose  the  theory 
that  tariff  laws  may  be  passed  having  for  their  object  the  granting 
of  discriminating  and  unfair  governmental  aid  to  private  ventures, 
we  wage  no  exterminating  war  against  any  American  interests.  We 
believe  a  readjustment  can  be  accomplished  in  accordance  with  the 


APPENDIX.  237 

principles  we  profess  without  disaster  or  demolition.  We  believe 
that  the  advantages  of  freer  raw  materials  should  be  accorded  to 
our  manufacturers,  and  we  contemplate  a  fair  and  careful  distribu- 
tion of  necessary  tariff  burdens,  rather  than  the  precipitation  of 
free  trade. 

We  anticipate  with  calmness  the  misrepresentation  of  our  motives 
and  purposes,  instigated  by  a  selfishness  which  seeks  to  hold  in 
unrelenting  grasp  its  unfair  advantage  under  present  tariff  laws. 
We  will  rely  upon  the  intelligence  of  our  fellow  countrymen  to  reject 
the  charge  that  a  party  comprising  a  majority  of  our  people  is 
planning  the  destruction  or  injury  of  American  interests;  and  we 
know  they  cannot  be  frightened  by  the  spectre  of  impossible  free 
trade. 

The  administration  and  management  of  our  government  depend 
upon  popular  will.  Federal  power  is  the  instrument  of  that  will — 
not  its  master.  Therefore  the  attempt  of  the  opponents  of  Democ- 
racy to  interfere  with  and  control  the  suffrage  of  the  States  through 
federal  agencies,  develops  a  design,  which  no  explanation  can  miti- 
gate, to  reverse  the  fundamental  and  safe  relations  between  the 
people  and  their  government.  Such  an  attempt  cannot  fail  to  be 
regarded  by  thoughtful  men  as  proof  of  a  bold  determination  to 
secure  the  ascendancy  of  a  discredited  party  in  reckless  disregard 
of  a  free  expression  of  the  popular  will.  To  resist  such  a  scheme 
is  an  impulse  of  Democracy.  At  all  times  and  in  all  places  we  trust 
the  people.  As  against  a  disposition  to  force  the  way  to  federal 
power,  we  present  to  them  as  our  claim  to  their  confidence  and 
support,  a  steady  championship  of  their  rights. 

The  people  are  entitled  to  sound  and  honest  money,  abundantly 
sufficient  in  volume  to  supply  their  business  needs.  But  whatever 
may  be  the  form  of  the  people's  currency,  national  or  State — whether 
gold,  silver  or  paper — it  should  be  so  regulated  and  guarded  by 
governmental  action,  or  by  wise  and  careful  laws,  that  no  one  can 
be  deluded  as  to  the  certainty  and  stability  of  its  value.  Every 
dollar  put  into  the  hands  of  the  people  should  be  of  the  same 
intrinsic  value  or  purchasing  power.  With  this  condition  absolutely 
guaranteed,  both  gold  and  silver  can  be  safely  utilized,  upon  equal 
terms,  in  the  adjustment  of  our  currency. 

In  dealing  with  this  subject  no  selfish  scheme  should  be  allowed 
to  intervene  and  no  doubtful  experiment  should  be  attempted.  The 


238  APPENDIX. 

wants  of  our  people,  arising  from  the  deficiency  or  imperfect  distri- 
bution of  money  circulation,  ought  to  be  fully  and  honestly  recog- 
nized and  efficiently  remedied.  It  should,  however,  be  constantly 
remembered  that  the  inconvenience  or  loss  that  might  arise  from 
such  a  situation,  can  be  much  easier  borne  than  the  universal  dis- 
tress which  must  follow  a  discredited  currency. 

Public  officials  are  the  agents  of  the  people.  It  is,  therefore,  their 
duty  to  secure  for  those  whom  they  represent  the  best  and  most 
efficient  performance  of  public  work.  This  plainly  can  be  best 
accomplished  by  regarding  ascertained  fitness  in  the  selection  of 
government  employes.  These  considerations  alone  are  sufficient 
justification  for  an  honest  adherence  to  the  letter  and  spirit  of  Civil 
Service  Reform.  There  are,  however,  other  features  of  this  plan 
which  abundantly  commend  it.  Through  its  operation  worthy  merit 
in  every  station  and  condition  of  American  life  is  recognized  in  the 
distribution  of  public  employment,  while  its  application  tends  to 
raise  the  standard  of  political  activity  from  spoils  hunting  and 
unthinking  party  affiliation  to  the  advocacy  of  party  principles  by 
reason  and  argument. 

The  American  people  are  generous  and  grateful  :  and  they  have 
impressed  these  characteristics  upon  their  government.  Therefore, 
all  patriotic  and  just  citizens  must  commend  liberal  consideration 
for  our  worthy  veteran  soldiers  and  for  the  families  of  those  who 
have  died.  No  complaint  should  be  made  of  the  amount  of  public 
money  paid  to  those  actually  disabled  or  made  dependent  by  rea- 
son of  army  service.  But  our  pension  roll  should  be  a  roll  of 
honor,  uncontaminaled  by  ill  desert  and  unvitiated  by  demagogic 
use.  This  is  due  to  those  whose  worthy  names  adorn  the  roll,  and 
to  all  our  people  who  delight  to  honor  the  brave  and  the  true.  It 
is  also  due  to  those  who  in  years  to  come  should  be  allowed  to 
hear,  reverently  and  lovingly,  the  story  of  American  patriotism  and 
fortitude,  illustrated  by  our  pension  roll.  The  preferences  ac- 
corded to  veteran  soldiers  in  public  employment  should  be  secured 
to  them  honestly  and  without  evasion,  and  when  capable  and 
worthy,  their  claim  to  the  helpful  regard  and  gratitude  of  their 
countrymen  should  be  ungrudgingly  acknowledged. 

The  assurance  to  the  people  of  the  utmost  individual  liberty  con- 
sistent with  peace  and  good  order  is  a  cardinal  principle  of  our 
government.  This  gives  no  sanction  to  vexatious  sumptuary  laws 
which  unnecessarily  interfere  with  such  habits  and  customs  of  our 


APPENDIX.  239 

people  as  are  not  offensive  to  a  just  moral  sense  and  are  not  incon- 
sistent with  good  citizenship  and  the  public  welfare.  The  same 
principle  requires  that  the  line  between  the  subjects  which  are 
properly  within  governmental  control  and  those  which  are  more 
fittingly  left  to  parental  regulation  should  be  carefully  kept  in  view. 
An  enforced  education,  wisely  deemed  a  proper  preparation  for 
citizenship,  should  not  involve  the  impairment  of  wholesome 
parental  authority  nor  do  violence  to  the  household  conscience. 
Paternalism  in  government  finds  no  approval  in  the  creed  of  De- 
mocracy. It  is  a  symptom  of  misrule,  whether  it  is  manifested  in 
unauthorized  gifts  or  by  an  unwarranted  control  of  personal  and 
family  affairs. 

Our  people,  still  cherishing  the  feeling  of  human  fellowship  which 
belonged  to  our  beginning  as  a  nation,  require  their  government  to 
express  for  them  their  sympathy  with  all  those  who  are  oppressed 
under  any  rule  less  free  than  ours. 

A  generous  hospitality,  which  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  of 
our  national  characteristics,  prompts  us  to  welcome  the  worthy  and 
industrious  of  all  lands  to  homes  and  citizenship  among  us.  This 
hospitable  sentiment  is  not  violated,  however,  by  careful  and  reason- 
able regulations  for  the  protection  of  the  public  health,  nor  does  it 
justify  the  reception  of  immigrants  who  have  no  appreciation  of  our 
institutions  and  whose  presence  among  us  is  a  menace  to  peace  and 
good  order. 

The  importance  of  the  construction  of  the  Nicaragua  Ship  Canal 
as  a  means  of  promoting  commerce  between  our  States  and  with 
foreign  countries,  and  also  as  a  contribution  by  Americans  to  the 
enterprises  which  advance  the  interests  of  the  world  of  civilization, 
should  commend  the  project  to  governmental  approval  and  indorse- 
ment. 

Our  countrymen  not  only  expect  from  those  who  represent  them 
in  public  places  a  sedulous  care  for  the  things  which  are  directly 
and  palpably  related  to  their  material  interests,  but  they  also  fully 
appreciate  the  value  of  cultivating  our  national  pride  and  maintain- 
ing our  national  honor.  Both  their  material  interests  and  their 
national  pride  and  honor  are  involved  in  the  success  of  the  Colum- 
bian Exposition ;  and  they  will  not  be  inclined  to  condone  any 
neglect  of  effort  on  the  part  of  their  government  to  insure  in  the 
grandeur  of  this  event  a  fitting  exhibit  of  American  growth  and 
greatness,  and  a  splendid  demonstration  of  American  patriotism. 


240  APPENDIX. 

In  an  imperfect  and  incomplete  manner,  I  have  thus  endeavored 
to  state  some  of  the  things  which  accord  with  the  creed  and  inten- 
tions of  the  party  to  which  I  have  given  my  life-long  allegiance. 
My  attempt  has  not  been  to  instruct  my  countrymen  nor  my  party, 
but  to  remind  both  that  Democratic  doctrine  lies  near  the  princi- 
ples of  our  government  and  tends  to  promote  the  people's  good.  I 
am  willing  to  be  accused  of  addressing  my  countrymen  upon  trite 
topics  and  in  homely  fashion,  for  I  believe  that  important  truths 
are  found  on  the  surface  of  thought,  and  that  they  should  be  stated  in 
direct  and  simple  terms.  Though  much  is  left  unwritten,  my  record 
as  a  public  servant  leaves  no  excuse  for  misunderstanding  my  belief 
and  position  on  the  questions  which  are  now  presented  to  the  voters 
of  the  land  for  their  decision. 

Called  for  the  third  time  to  represent  the  party  of  my  choice  in  a 
contest  for  the  supremacy  of  Democratic  principles,  my  grateful 
appreciation  of  its  confidence  less  than  ever  effaces  the  solemn 
sense  of  my  responsibility. 

If  the  action  of  the  Convention  you  represent  shall  be  endorsed 
by  the  suffrages  of  my  countrymen,  I  will  assume  the  duties  of  the 
great  office  for  which  I  have  been  nominated,  knowing  full  well  its 
labors  and  perplexities,  and  with  humble  reliance  upon  the  Divine 
Being,  infinite  in  power  to  aid,  and  constant  in  a  watchful  care  over 
our  favored  Nation. 

Yours  very  truly, 

GROVER  CLEVELAND. 
GRAY  GABLES,  September  26,  1892. 


APPENDIX.  241 


LETTER  OF  ACCEPTANCE  OF  HON.  ADLAI  E. 
STEVENSON. 


CHARLESTON,  W.  VA.,  Oct.  29,  1892. 
To  the  Honorable  Wm.  L.  Wilson,  Chairman,  etc.: 

When  in  the  presence  of  20,000  of  my  countrymen  I  accepted  the 
honor  conferred  upon  me  by  the  Convention  over  which  you  pre- 
sided, I  promised  to  indicate  by  letter,  in  a  more  formal  manner, 
my  acceptance  of  the  nomination  tendered  me  by  the  assembled 
representatives  of  the  Democratic  party  of  the  United  States. 

Since  that  time  I  have  been  engaged  continually  in  the  discussion 
before  the  people,  in  many  of  the  States  of  the  Union,  of  the  issues 
emphasized  by  the  Convention  and  represented  by  our  candidate, 
Grover  Cleveland.  Opportunity  has  thus  been  denied  me  to  write 
with  the  care  I  would  like  the  more  formal  answer  promised  to  your 
committee.  The  full  discussion  of  public  questions,  commonly  ex- 
pected from  a  candidate  for  Vice-President,  has  been  rendered  less 
imperative  by  the  complete  presentation  of  the  Democratic  creed 
by  the  gentleman  with  whom  I  have  the  honor  to  be  associated  as  a 
candidate  on  the  National  ticket.  His  treatment  of  the  issues  now 
before  the  country  for  discussion  and  settlement  was  so  complete 
that  I  can  do  little  more  than  indorse  his  position  and  give  it  the 
emphasis  of  my  unqualified  approval. 

The  greatest  power  conferred  upon  human  government  is  that  of 
taxation.  All  the  great  struggles  of  the  past  for  a  broader  political 
liberty  have  looked  toward  the  limitation  of  this  power  by  the  right 
to  tax — a  right  which  should  always  be  limited  by  the  necessities  of 
government  and  to  benefits  which  may  be  shared  by  all.  When- 
ever this  power  is  used  to  draw  tribute  from  the  many  for  the  benefit 
of  the  few,  or  when  part  of  the  people  are  oppressed  in  order  that 

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242  APPENDIX. 

the  remainder  may  prosper  unduly,  equality  is  lost  sight  of,  injustice 
hardens  into  precedent,  which  is  used  to  excuse  new  exactions,  and 
there  arise  artificial  distinctions  which  the  beneficiaries  come  to  look 
upon,  in  due  time,  as  vested  rights  sacred  to  themselves. 

It  is  plain  that  our  present  inequitable  system  of  tariff  taxation 
has  promoted  the  growth  of  such  conditions  in  our  land,  favored 
though  it  has  been  by  an  industrious  and  enterprising  people,  a 
friendly  climate,  a  productive  soil,  and  the  highest  development  of 
political  liberty.  If  the  beneficiaries  of  this  system  shall  be  able  to 
add  a  new  tenure  of  power  to  those  they  have  already  enjoyed,  the 
development  of  these  unfavorable  conditions  must  continue,  until 
the  power  to  tax  will  be  lodged  in  those  who  are  willing  and  able  to 
pay  for  the  perpetuation  of  privileges  originally  conferred  by  a  con- 
fiding people  for  the  preservation  inviolate  of  their  own  govern- 
ment. 

There  is  no  longer  pretext  or  excuse  for  maintaining  this  war 
tariff  in  times  of  peace  and  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  after 
armed  conflict  has  ceased.  The  platform  of  the  National  Demo- 
cratic Convention  demands  the  reform  of  this  system  and  the  adop- 
tion in  its  place  of  one  which  will  insure  equality  to  all  people.  I 
am  in  full  and  hearty  accord  with  these  purposes. 

The  Convention  also  declared  its  position  on  the  currency  ques- 
tion in  no  unmeaning  words  when  it  said  in  its  platform  : 

"  We  hold  to  the  use  of  both  gold  and  silver  as  the  standard  money 
of  the  country,  and  to  the  coinage  of  both  gold  and  silver  without 
discriminating  against  either  metal  or  charge  for  mintage,  but  the 
dollar  unit  of  coinage  of  both  metals  must  be  of  equal  intrinsic  and 
exchangeable  value,  or  be  adjusted  through  international  agreement 
or  by  such  safeguards  of  legislation  as  shall  insure  the  parity  of  the 
two  metals  and  the  equal  power  of  every  dollar  at  all  times  in  the 
markets  and  in  payments  of  debts,  and  we  demand  that  all  paper 
currency  shall  be  kept  at  par  with  and  redeemable  in  such  coin." 

To  this  plain  and  unequivocal  declaration  in  favor  of  sound,  honest 
money,  I  subscribe  without  reservation  or  qualification.  A  safe 
circulating  medium  is  absolutely  essential  to  the  protection  of  the 
business  interests  of  our  country,  while  to  the  wage-earner,  or  to  the 
farmer,  it  is  all-important  that  every  dollar,  whatever  its  form,  that 
finds  its  way  into  his  pocket,  shall  be  of  equal,  unquestioned  and 
universally  exchangeable  value  and  of  equal  purchasing  power. 


APPENDIX.  243 

Another  issue  of  great  moment  in  the  pending  contest  is  the  Force 
Bill,  the  magnitude  of  which  cannot  be  overestimated.  It  may 
mean  the  control  of  the  election  of  the  Representatives  in  Congress 
by  the  bayonet.  The  Republican  party,  by  its  acts  in  the  Fifty-first 
Congress,  and  by  its  platform  in  its  late  National  Convention, 
stands  pledged  to  the  passage  of  this  bill.  That  it  will  pass  when 
it  has  the  power  no  sane  man  can  doubt.  To  all  our  people  who 
desire  the  peace  and  prosperity  of  our  common  country  this  ques- 
tion is  all-important. 

Since  my  nomination  I  have  been  in  eight  of  the]  Southern  and 
Southwestern  States  of  the  Union,  and  have  talked  with  men  of  all 
classes  and  conditions  there.  I  found  a  general  apprehension  of 
the  evil  which  it  is  believed  would  result  from  the  passage  of  the 
Lodge  Bill  or  similar  threatened  legislation.  I  found  that  the  in- 
dustries established  by  Northern  capital  during  Mr.  Cleveland's 
administration  were  in  a  languishing  condition,  that  the  immigra- 
tion of  labor  and  the  investment  of  capital  invited  to  those  States 
by  their  then  peaceful  condition  had  in  a  large  measure  ceased. 
The  enactment  of  the  Force  Bill  into  law,  while  it  would  threaten 
the  liberties  of  the  entire  people,  would  undoubtedly  retard  the  ma- 
terial growth  of  the  States  at  which  it  is  especially  aimed,  would 
incite  in  many  communities  race  troubles  and  invite  retaliatory 
legislation,  which  would  disturb  property  values  and  discontinue 
and  destroy  the  security  of  Northern  investments.  And  its  reflex 
action  upon  the  Northern  States  would  result  in  a  consequent  loss 
of  commercial  and  trade  relations  with  the  vast  territory  now  be- 
coming tributary  to  this  wealth  and  prosperity. 

I  say  nothing  now  of  the  inherent  vice  of  the  un-American  and 
revolutionary  spirit  involved  in  the  Lodge  Bill,  which  was  pro- 
nounced by  a  Republican  Senator  "the  most  infamous  that  ever 
crossed  the  threshold  of  the  Senate."  I  appeal  to  the  instinct  of 
self-interest  and  to  the  sense  of  common  justice  in  the  American 
people.  The  era  of  good  feeling  and  renewed  commercial  relations 
commencing  with  the  election  of  Mr.  Cleveland  in  1884  should  not 
be  interrupted  by  the  inauguration  of  a  policy  which  tends  to 
destroy  popular  representation  and  the  purity  of  local  self-govern- 
ment, which  furnishes  an  instrument  to  discredited  Federal  power 
to  perpetuate  itself,  which  seeks  to  keep  alive  sectional  jealousies 


244  APPENDIX. 

and  strife,  and  which  offers  no  excuse  or  palliation  for  its  existence 
except  the  perpetuation  in  power  of  a  political  party  which  has  lost 
public  confidence. 

I  accept  the  nomination  tendered  me,  and  should  the  action  of  the 
Convention  meet  the  approval  of  my  countrymen,  will,  to  the  best 
of  my  ability,  discharge  with  fidelity  the  duties  of  the  important 
trust  confided  in  me. 

Very  respectfully, 

A.  E.  STEVENSON. 


ERRATA. 


Page  4,  line  7,  for  G.  C.  Posey,  representative  from  New  Mexico, 
read  Neal  B.  Field. 

Page   13,  afternoon  session,  line   5,  for   Charles   L.  Jewitt,  read 
Charles  L.  Jewett. 


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